2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking.

Computational Science is the 224th most popular major in the country with 1,360 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Southeast region, there were 219 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,345 and $22,500 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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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The computational science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the Southeast Region”.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Southeast Region

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The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga landed the #1 spot on the list. The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga is a fairly large public school situated in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It awarded 3 doctorate’s computational science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Computational Science at UT Chattanooga

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Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

#23 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Tallahassee, Florida, this large public school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s computational science students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Computational Science at Florida State University

• 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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