2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

Across the New England region, there were 27 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree computational science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the New England Region

1

Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts

#9 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tufts University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region list. Tufts University is located in Medford, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s computational science degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Tufts Computational Science Report

2

University of Maine at Augusta
Augusta, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine at Augusta. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region list. Augusta, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s computational science degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Maine at Augusta Computational Science Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science

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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