2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Southwest Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Computational Science is the 380th most popular major in the country with 1,360 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 142 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in computational science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in computational science.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree scientific computing students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Southwest Region list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s scientific computing degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full UT Austin Computational Science Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Arizona University landed the #2 spot on the list. NAU is a large school located in Flagstaff, Arizona that handed out 0 bachelors’s scientific computing degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full NAU Computational Science Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Edinburg, Texas, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s scientific computing degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Computational Science at UT Rio Grande Valley
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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