2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 the Southwest region, there were 6 mathematics and computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 mathematics and computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in mathematics and computer science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in mathematics and computer science.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree math & compsci students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics & Computer Science in the Southwest Region

1

LeTourneau University
Longview, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend LeTourneau University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southwest Region. LeTourneau University is a small school located in Longview, Texas that handed out 1 bachelors’s math and compsci degrees in 2020-2021.

Full LETU Mathematics & Computer Science Report

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The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southwest Region. UT Austin is located in Austin, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s math and compsci degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, 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 97%.

Read full report on Mathematics & Computer Science at UT Austin

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics & Computer 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.

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