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2023 Most Popular Online Schools in California

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In 2020-2021, 98 degrees and certificates were awarded to data science students who went to a California college or university. This makes it the #133 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular Online Schools in California to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 1 school in California offering online programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following school tops our list of the Most Popular Online Data Science Colleges.

Our analysis found Naval Postgraduate School to be the most popular school for data science students who want to pursue an online degree in California. Located in the midsize suburb of Monterey, Naval Postgraduate School is a public college with a small student population.

Read full report on Data Science at Naval Postgraduate School

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State Degrees Awarded
Washington 13
Oregon 1

One of 36 majors within the area of study, data science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 2,491
Sustainability Science 1,547
Nutrition Science 1,496
Behavioral Science 1,358
Computational Science 1,063

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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