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2023 Best Value Computer Science Master's Degree Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

4 Schools Ranked
$13,512 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Today's computer science 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 and bootcamps 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, Computer Science Degree Search has created its Best Value Computer Science Master's Degree Schools in Delaware ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Delaware to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for computer science students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Top Value Computer Science Master's Degree Schools in Delaware

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Delaware State University

Dover, Delaware
2 Total Awards
$11,726 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Delaware State University the best value school in Delaware for computer science students working on their master’s degree. Located in Dover, Delaware, the medium-sized public school handed out 2 master’s degree awards in 2020-2021.

Del State graduate students pay an average of $11,726 in tuition and fees each year.

Del State does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 61% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

Del State also took the #3 spot in our Best Computer Science Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware rankings.

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#2

Wilmington University

New Castle, Delaware
213 Total Awards
$9,060 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wilmington University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Computer Science Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list. Wilmington University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in New Castle, Delaware that handed out 213 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Wilmington University graduate students pay an average of $9,060 in tuition and fees each year.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at Wilmington University. In 2019-2020 about 82% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Wilmington University did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Computer Science Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

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#3

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware
72 Total Awards
$18,128 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Delaware helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value computer science schools in Delaware. UD is a large public school situated in Newark, Delaware. It awarded 72 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UD are $18,128 a year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UD does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 81% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

UD not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Computer Science Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

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#4

Strayer University - Delaware

Newark, Delaware
1 Total Awards
$15,135 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - Delaware. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Computer Science Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list. Strayer University - Delaware is a private for-profit institution located in Newark, Delaware. The school has a very small population, and it awarded 1 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Strayer University - Delaware are $15,135 a year.

Interested in an online degree? Then you definitely want to check out Strayer University - Delaware. Every graduate student at the school took at least one class online.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Strayer University - Delaware is ranked #4 for overall quality in Delaware.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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