2025 Best Data Science Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
2Colleges in the Far Western US Region
136Master's Degrees
Data Science isn't the most popular master's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #189 in popularity out of 343 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.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Data Science Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 136 master's degrees in data science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
DEBUG: relevant_offers > 0, checking for ESYOH offers
DEBUG: ESYOH filtering - found 2 ESYOH offers with relevance >= 0.8
DEBUG: esyoh_offers count = 2
DEBUG: ESYOH offers found, rendering ESYOH widget
DEBUG: most_relevant_only = true, filtering for most relevant
DEBUG: Found 2 offers with relevance >= 1.0
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master'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
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 data science students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of data science students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
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 much debt data science students go into to obtain their master'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 data science related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for data science students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Data Science Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
DEBUG: Raw major_slug = "multi-interdisciplinary-studies//data-science"
University of the Pacific is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in data science. Located in the large city of Stockton, Pacific is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a master’s in data science from University of the Pacific
DEBUG: Raw major_slug = "multi-interdisciplinary-studies//data-science"
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.
by our College Data Analytics Team
