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

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 New England region, there were 27 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region”.

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

1

Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts

#9 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region. Tufts University is located in Medford, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 masters’s computational science degrees to qualified students.

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. 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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2

Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Connecticut State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computational Science Major in the New England Region. CCSU is a public institution located in New Britain, Connecticut. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Computational Science at CCSU

• Most Focused Master’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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