When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in mathematics & statistics sits in the middle of the road, ranking #17 out of 38 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Louisiana to determine which ones were the best for mathematics & statistics students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 183 bachelor's degrees in mathematics & statistics to qualified students.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on mathematics & statistics students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other mathematics & statistics students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt mathematics & statistics students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized mathematics & statistics related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for mathematics & statistics students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Mathematics & Statistics Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Mathematics & Statistics Bachelor's Degree Schools in Louisiana ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
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