If you plan on getting your master's degree in computational science, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #118 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for computational science students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 69 master's degrees in computational science to qualified students.
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Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to computational science students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other computational science students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for computational science to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized computational science related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for computational science students working on their master's degree.
The computational science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Computational Science Master's Degree Schools in Florida.
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University of Central Florida is a great decision for individuals interested in a master's degree in computational science. Located in the large suburb of Orlando, UCF is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the computational science program state that they receive average early career earnings of $90,724.
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).