2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 1,360 people earned their degree in computational science, making the major the 380th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 219 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree scientific computing students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Southeast Region

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The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s scientific computing degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Computational Science at The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga

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Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

#23 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Southeast Region. Florida State University is located in Tallahassee, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s scientific computing degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Read full report on Computational Science at Florida State

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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

• *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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