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Most Popular Online Schools in California

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 #220 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Most Popular Online Schools in California ranking. 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.

Check out the online data science programs at this school if you want to attend one of the most popular in California.

Our 2023 rankings named Naval Postgraduate School the most popular online school in California for data science students. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Monterey, Naval Postgraduate School is a public college with a small student population.

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Best Data Science Colleges in the Far Western US Region

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State Degrees Awarded
Washington 13
Oregon 1

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 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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