by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in Illinois” 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.
Across Illinois, there were 2 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in Illinois” 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.
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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 “Schools Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in Illinois” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in Illinois”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Millikin University landed the #1 spot on the list. Millikin is a small school located in Decatur, Illinois that handed out 1 ’s computational science degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Augustana College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in Illinois. Rock Island, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s computational science degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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