Human Computer Interaction is about average in terms of popularity for bachelor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #189 out of the 363 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual reviewed 8 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of human computer interaction. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 892 bachelor's degrees in human computer interaction during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Human Computer Interaction School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of human computer interaction for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality human computer interaction program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
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 ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 human computer interaction students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other human computer interaction 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 easy is it for human computer interaction to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized human computer interaction related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for human computer interaction students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Human Computer Interaction Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Human Computer Interaction Bachelor's Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
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It's difficult to beat Stony Brook University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in human computer interaction. Located in the large suburb of Stony Brook, SUNY Stony Brook is a public university with a very large student population.
After graduation, human computer interaction bachelor's recipients typically earn about $59,722 in their early careers.
SCAD is a large private not-for-profit college located in the midsize city of Savannah.
Bachelor's recipients from the human computer interaction major at Savannah College of Art and Design get $19,058 above the standard college graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
California College of the Arts is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large city of San Francisco.
Bachelor's recipients from the human computer interaction degree program at California College of the Arts earn $37,359 more than the typical college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
Located in the city of Redmond, Digipen is a private for-profit school with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the human computer interaction program state that they receive average early career income of $50,265.
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).