2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the Far Western US Region

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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 Far Western US region, there were 56 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in computational science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their computational science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree computational science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Far Western US Region

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Chapman University
Orange, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chapman University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the Far Western US Region list. Chapman University is a medium-sized school located in Orange, California that handed out 9 doctorate’s computational science degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Chapman University Computational Science Report

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University of California - Irvine
Irvine, California

#23 overall quality in Far Western US

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Irvine landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Irvine, California, this large public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified doctorate’s computational science students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Computational Science at UC Irvine

• Most Focused Doctor’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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