Cognitive Science General

A program that focuses on the study of the mind and the nature of intelligence from the interdisciplinary perspectives of computer science, philosophy, mathematics, psychology, neuroscience, and other disciplines. Includes instruction in mathematics and logic, cognitive process modeling, dynamic systems, learning theories, brain and cognition, neural networking, programming, and applications to topics such as language acquisition, computer systems, and perception and behavior.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 66 institutions across the United States, with a total of 8869 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

certificates awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

2,793

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

degrees awarded

Other Awards

5,914

awards given

Top Schools for Cognitive Science General

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA	2,217
2	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	771
3	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	711
4	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	570
5	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	423
6	University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA	369
7	Stanford University Stanford, CA	267
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	252
9	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	240
10	University of California-Merced Merced, CA	204
11	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	192
12	University of Delaware Newark, DE	183
13	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	177
14	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	156
15	Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH	147
16	University of Georgia Athens, GA	147
17	Rice University Houston, TX	132
18	Yale University New Haven, CT	132
19	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	132
20	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	120
21	University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	108
22	Tufts University Medford, MA	105
23	The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX	99
24	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	99
25	New York University New York, NY	84
26	Occidental College Los Angeles, CA	72
27	Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY	63
28	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	63
29	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY	57
30	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	42
31	Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA	39
32	Brown University Providence, RI	39
33	Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	39
34	United States Military Academy West Point, NY	33
35	Marquette University Milwaukee, WI	30
36	University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY	27
37	Pomona College Claremont, CA	27
38	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	21
39	Carleton College Northfield, MN	21
40	State University of New York at Oswego Oswego, NY	21
41	Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA	18
42	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	18
43	Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster, PA	18
44	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ	16
45	University of Minnesota-Duluth Duluth, MN	15
46	Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI	15
47	Barnard College New York, NY	15
48	University of Richmond University of Richmond, VA	12
49	George Fox University Newberg, OR	9
50	University of Memphis Memphis, TN	9
51	Scripps College Claremont, CA	9
52	Beloit College Beloit, WI	9
53	Minnesota State University-Mankato Mankato, MN	9
54	California State University-Stanislaus Turlock, CA	6
55	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	6
56	Haverford College Haverford, PA	6
57	Hampshire College Amherst, MA	6
58	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	6
59	University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO	6
60	Pitzer College Claremont, CA	6
61	Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA	6
62	Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY	6
63	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	3
64	Chapman University Orange, CA	3
65	California State University-Fresno Fresno, CA	3
66	University of Evansville Evansville, IN	3