2025 Best Computational Science Schools in the Far Western US Region
3Colleges in the Far Western US Region
80Computational Science Degrees Awarded
$92,458Avg Early-Career Salary
Computational Science isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #224 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for computational science students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 80 degrees in computational science to qualified students.
Your choice of computational science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for computational science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Computational Science Schools in the Far Western US Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Computational Science in the Far Western US Region
The schools below may not offer all types of computational science degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Far Western US Region Schools in Computational Science
It is hard to beat University of California - Irvine if you want to pursue a degree in computational science. Located in the city of Irvine, UC Irvine is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 12th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 1 computational science students who graduated with this degree at UC Irvine in the most recent year we have data available.
University of California - San Diego is a good option for students interested in a degree in computational science. Located in the city of La Jolla, UCSD is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #49 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UCSD is a great university overall.
There were about 6 computational science students who graduated with this degree at UCSD in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat Washington State University if you want to pursue a degree in computational science. Wazzu is a very large public university located in the town of Pullman. This university ranks 3rd out of 50 schools for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were about 34 computational science students who graduated with this degree at Wazzu in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
Your choice of computational science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for computational science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
