by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Math & CompSci Major in Michigan” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 1,302 people earned their degree in mathematics and computer science, making the major the 221st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, mathematics and computer science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $80,867 and had an average of $19,874 in loans still to pay off.
Across Michigan, there were 37 mathematics and computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 mathematics and computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,004 and $27,379 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in Michigan” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mathematics and computer science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in mathematics and computer science.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in Michigan” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in Michigan”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Michigan University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in Michigan. WMU is a fairly large public school situated in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It awarded 7 bachelors’s math and compsci degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Dearborn landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Dearborn, Michigan, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s math and compsci degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Michigan - Dearborn Mathematics & Computer Science Report
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Calvin University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s math and compsci students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan Technological University landed the #3 spot on the list. Michigan Technological University is a medium-sized public school situated in Houghton, Michigan. It awarded 0 bachelors’s math and compsci degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lawrence Technological University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in Michigan. Lawrence Technological University is located in Southfield, Michigan and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s math and compsci degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Mathematics & Computer Science at Lawrence Technological University
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