2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Far Western US 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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Far Western US region, there were 56 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in computational science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their computational science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree scientific computing students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Chapman University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Orange, California, and it awarded 10 masters’s scientific computing degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Computational Science at Chapman
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - San Diego. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Far Western US Region list. UCSD is a large school located in La Jolla, California that handed out 8 masters’s scientific computing degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, 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 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Computational Science at UCSD
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Pacific. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Far Western US Region list. Stockton, California is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s scientific computing degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of the Pacific Computational Science Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Irvine. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Scientific Computing Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Irvine, California, this large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s scientific computing students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Computational Science at University of California - Irvine
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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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