2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Computational Science

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 1,360 people earned their degree in computational science, making the major the 224th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, computational science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $69,024 and had an average of $22,500 in loans still to pay off.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in computational science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in computational science.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Computational Science

1

Hartnell College
Salinas, California

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Hartnell College landed the #1 spot on the list. Hartnell College is a medium-sized school located in Salinas, California that handed out 3 associates’s computational science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Hartnell College Computational Science Report

2

Modesto Junior College
Modesto, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Modesto Junior College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major list. MJC is a fairly large school located in Modesto, California that handed out 0 associates’s computational science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full MJC Computational Science Report

2

University of South Carolina - Beaufort
Bluffton, South Carolina

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Beaufort landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Bluffton, South Carolina, this small public school awarded 15 diplomas to qualified associates’s computational science students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Computational Science at USCB

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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