2025 Best Data Science Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
4Colleges in the Southeast Region
337Master'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 reviewed 4 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of data science. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 337 master's degrees in data science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Data Science School for Your Master's Degree
The data science master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality data science program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on data science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other data science students want to attend this school to pursue a master'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 easy is it for data 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 data science related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for data science students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Data Science Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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.