2022 Best Value Computational Science Schools for an Associate in California

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Computational Science Schools for an Associate in California” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Computational Science is the 244th most popular major in the country with 1,184 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, computational science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 60 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 12 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,451 and $19,634 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent computational science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the computational science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Computational Science Schools for an Associate in California” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Computational Science Schools for an Associate in California

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Computational Science Schools for an Associate in California.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Computational Science in California

#1

Modesto Junior College

Modesto, California

#1 in overall quality

$9,196 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Computational Science Schools for an Associate in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Modesto Junior College landed the #1 spot on the list. Modesto Junior College is a fairly large school located in Modesto, California that handed out 12 associates’s computational science degrees in 2019-2020.

MJC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Computational Science Associate Degree Schools in California” list. The yearly cost to attend MJC is $9,196 for california associate degree computational science students.

Read more about Computational Science at Modesto Junior College

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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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