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2023 Most Popular Online Bachelor's Degree Schools

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In 2020-2021, 541 people earned a degree or certificate in data science, making the major the #276 most popular in the United States.

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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Most Popular Online Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the United States to see which online bachelor's degree programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for data science majors pursuing an online bachelor's degree.

Our 2023 rankings named Maryville University of Saint Louis the most popular online school in the United States for data science students working on their bachelor’s degree. Maryville U is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Saint Louis.

Of the 8 students majoring in data science at Maryville U, 88% are male and 13% are female.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Advancing Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Bachelor’s Degree Schools list. University of Advancing Technology is a small private for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Tempe.

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

One of 44 majors within the area of study, data science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 34,975
Biological & Physical Science 30,075
Interdisciplinary Studies 9,074
International Studies 7,368
Nutrition Science 5,330

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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