2022 Best Value Economics and Computer Science Schools for a Bachelor’s

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Economics and Computer Science Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Economics and Computer Science is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 1 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 economics and computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality economics and computer science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the economics and computer science program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Economics and Computer Science Schools for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Economics and Computer Science Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree economics and computer science students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Economics and Computer Science

#1

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$26,869 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Economics and Computer Science Schools for a Bachelor’s. WUSTL is a fairly large school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 1 bachelors’s economics and computer science degrees in 2019-2020.

WUSTL also took the #1 spot in our “Best Economics and Computer Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Washington University in St Louis is $26,869 for bachelor’s degree economics and computer science students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. 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%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Economics and Computer Science at Washington University in St Louis

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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