by our College Data Analytics TeamThose considering computational science, take a look at other closely related fields of study. The sections below cover majors with similar career paths, related concentrations and specializations, and the most popular similar majors, ranked by annual graduates.
Programs here prepare graduates for occupations that overlap with those of computational science, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. Sorted by the number of shared occupations.
| Similar Major | Shared Careers | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Mathematics and Computer Science | 5 | 1,604 |
| Computational Biology | 4 | 321 |
| Computer Science | 4 | 79,857 |
| Applied Mathematics, General | 3 | 4,209 |
| Applied Mathematics, Other | 3 | 221 |
| Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Other | 3 | 250 |
| Cheminformatics/Chemistry Informatics | 3 | — |
| Computational and Applied Mathematics | 3 | 824 |
| Computational Mathematics | 3 | 397 |
| Data Analytics, General | 3 | 1,675 |
A specialization within Computational Science, computational science shares its foundations with the other majors in that field.
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