2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Plains States Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Computational Science Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” 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 Plains States region, there were 33 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 computational science graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Computational Science Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in computational science. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular computational science programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Computational Science Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree computational science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Computational Science in the Plains States Region

1

Fontbonne University
Saint Louis, Missouri

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Computational Science Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Fontbonne University landed the #1 spot on the list. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s computational science degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Computational Science at Fontbonne University

2

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, South Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Computational Science Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology is a small public school situated in Rapid City, South Dakota. It awarded 0 masters’s computational science degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%.

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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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