2024 Best General Physics Schools in South Carolina
3Colleges in South Carolina
104General Physics Degrees Awarded
General Physics is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #60 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in South Carolina to determine which ones were the best for general physics students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 104 degrees in general physics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The general physics program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Physics rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general physics schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Physics Schools in South Carolina list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for General Physics in South Carolina
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the general physics degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is hard to beat Wofford College if you want to pursue a degree in general physics. Located in the small city of Spartanburg, Wofford is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 4th out of 44 schools for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were roughly 8 general physics students who graduated with this degree at Wofford in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat University of South Carolina - Columbia if you wish to pursue a degree in general physics. UofSC is a very large public university located in the city of Columbia. A Best Colleges rank of #152 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UofSC is a great university overall.
There were roughly 22 general physics students who graduated with this degree at UofSC in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in general physics has to take a look at College of Charleston. Located in the medium-sized city of Charleston, C of C is a public college with a fairly large student population. This college ranks 8th out of 44 colleges for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were about 10 general physics students who graduated with this degree at C of C in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
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