2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mathematics & Computer Science in the Southeast Region

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Mathematics & Computer Science is the 221st most popular major in the country with 1,302 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Southeast region, there were 82 mathematics and computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 mathematics and computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mathematics and computer science. That schools that top this list have a program in mathematics and computer science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southeast Region

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

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

1

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Mason University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Fairfax, Virginia, this large public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s math and compsci students 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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Mathematics & Computer Science at GMU

2

Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana Tech University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Ruston, Louisiana, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s math and compsci degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Louisiana Tech University Mathematics & Computer Science Report

• Most Focused Doctor’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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