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2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Great Lakes Region

1 Ranked Colleges
2 Degrees Awarded
$21,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,184 people earned their degree in computational science, making the major the 460th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 308 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great computational science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the computational science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Marquette University

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marquette University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Scientific Computing Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region list. This fairly large school is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s scientific computing degrees in 2019-2020.

Marquette did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Computational Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Marquette are $21,690, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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