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2023 Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region

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Finding the Best Data Science Graduate Certificate School for You

Data Science is the #196 most popular major in the country with 373 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Far Western US Region to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Data Science program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Data Science Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our analysis found Naval Postgraduate School to be the most popular school for data science students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Far Western US Region . Located in the midsize suburb of Monterey, Naval Postgraduate School is a public college with a small student population.

Women make up 40% of the data science majors at the school.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Washington University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Graduate Certificate Schools in the Far Western US Region list. WWU is a fairly large public school located in the city of Bellingham.

Of the 13 students majoring in data science at WWU, 23% are male and 77% are female.

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Best Data Science Colleges by State

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State Degrees Awarded
California 98
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 averages are for the top 2 schools 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).

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