2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the New England Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Scientific Computing Major in the New England Region for a Master’s” 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 New England region, there were 27 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Scientific Computing Major in the New England Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in computational science. To top this list, a school must have a successful computational science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Scientific Computing Major in the New England Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree scientific computing students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the New England Region

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Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts

#9 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Scientific Computing Major in the New England Region for a Master’s. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 14 diplomas to qualified masters’s scientific computing students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Computational Science at Tufts University

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Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Connecticut State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Scientific Computing Major in the New England Region for a Master’s. This medium-sized school is located in New Britain, Connecticut, and it awarded 5 masters’s scientific computing degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Computational Science at Central Connecticut State University

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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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