2022 Best Value Computational Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Computational Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,184 people earned their degree in computational science, making the major the 244th most popular in the United States. 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 308 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the computational science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Computational Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Computational Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Marquette University

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$21,690 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marquette University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Computational Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region list. Marquette University is a fairly large school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that handed out 2 doctorate’s computational science degrees in 2019-2020.

Marquette also took the #1 spot in our “Best Computational Science Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Marquette University are $21,690, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Computational Science at Marquette 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

• *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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