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2022 Best Value Data Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k

4 Ranked Colleges
33 Degrees Awarded
$21,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Data Science Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Data Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

With 294 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, data science is the most popular major in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 139 data science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 33 data science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Data Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in data science. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent data science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the data science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Data Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree data science students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Data Science (Income $75-$110k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

University of Wisconsin - River Falls

River Falls, Wisconsin
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - River Falls. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Data Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Located in River Falls, Wisconsin, this medium-sized public school awarded 11 degrees to qualified bachelors’s data science students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UW - River Falls, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Data Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $16,138 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Data Science students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend UW - River Falls.

The low student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%.

Read full report on Data Science at University of Wisconsin - River Falls

#2

Eastern Michigan University

Ypsilanti, Michigan
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Michigan University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Data Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k. This fairly large school is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s data science degrees in 2019-2020.

Eastern Michigan did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Data Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Eastern Michigan University is $18,598 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Data Science students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read more about Data Science at Eastern Michigan University

#3

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Data Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #3 spot on the list. Kalamazoo, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s data science degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WMU, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Data Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $23,352 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Data Science students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend WMU.

Read full report on Data Science at WMU

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Case Western Reserve University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Data Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Case Western Reserve University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cleveland, Ohio. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Case Western also took the #2 spot in our “Best Data Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Case Western is $29,607 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree data science students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Full Case Western Data Science Report

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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