2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Cognitive Science

COGNITIVE SCIENCE DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

College students majoring in cognitive science are quite unique. Each subject hands out roughly 6,000 undergraduate degrees per year; last year, 2,120 students earned an undergrad degree in cognitive science, making it the United States of America's 147th most popular area of study. 479 of those students attended the University of California-San Diego, which boasts having the largest program in the USA, and 1,345 of those degrees were conferred at colleges in California.

54 schools across the country offer bachelor's degrees in cognitive science; consequently, handpicking the best college for you will potentially be hard. Compared to the typical course of study, there are 71.9% fewer institutions offering undergraduate degrees in cognitive science, making it the 263rd most widely available degree in the USA.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While 94% of degrees in cognitive science last May were undergrad degrees; 6% were postgrad degrees. Cognitive science is the 283rd most popular advanced degree in the country, with 138 degrees awarded. To put that in context, cognitive science is 95% less popular among master's & doctor's students than the average subject.

In Total, 2,258 students received a bachelor's or higher in cognitive science last year.

ONLINE COGNITIVE SCIENCE DEGREES

None of the students who were awarded bachelor's degrees or grad degrees in cognitive science last year completed their degrees fully remote. Remote programs aren't even available at any US schools. ### PARTIALLY ONLINE COGNITIVE SCIENCE DEGREES

• Cognitive science is the 302nd most ubiquitous partially online bachelor's degree in the USA
• Cognitive science is the 293rd most universally available partially online college degree countrywide
• Last May, 89 people earned a bachelor's or higher in cognitive science partially online
• The University of California-Berkeley​ awarded the most partially online four-year degrees in cognitive science in the United States of America (14)
• California graduates more cognitive science majors partially online than any other state (41 four-year degrees awarded last May)
• The average partially online course of study grants 1,683 annual bachelor's degrees or higher

IN-PERSON COGNITIVE SCIENCE DEGREES

• Cognitive science is the 117th most in-demand totally in-person undergrad degree in the USA
• Cognitive science is the 92nd most widely offered in-person bachelor's degree in the US
• 96.65% of all undergrad degree in cognitive science are done comprehensively in-person
• The University of California-San Diego's​ last undergraduate class contained a higher percentage of in-person cognitive science majors than any other institution in the United States (5.89%)
• Pennsylvania houses 3 institutions offering undergraduate degrees entirely in-person in cognitive science, more than any other state
• The typical course of study awards 1,836 advanced degrees per year entirely in-person