2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Data Science in the New England Region

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 for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Data Science is the 282nd most popular major in the country with 541 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 19 data science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 data science graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in data science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in data science.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree data science students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Data Science in the New England Region

1

Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mount Holyoke College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the New England Region. South Hadley, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s data science degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 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 Data Science at Mount Holyoke College

2

University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Vermont. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the New England Region list. Burlington, Vermont is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s data science degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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3

Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Connecticut State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Data Science Major in the New England Region. This medium-sized school is located in New Haven, Connecticut, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s data science degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Data 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.