2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major 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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 mathematics and computer science graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in mathematics and computer science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their mathematics and computer science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southeast Region

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

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

1

George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Top 10% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, George Mason University landed the #1 spot on the list. GMU is a large public school situated in Fairfax, Virginia. It awarded 5 masters’s math and compsci degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full GMU Mathematics & Computer Science Report

2

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#5 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Math & CompSci Major in the Southeast Region. Emory University is a fairly large school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 16 masters’s math and compsci degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Mathematics & Computer Science at Emory University

• Most Focused Master’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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