2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biophysics in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biophysics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 269 people earned their degree in biophysics, making the major the 732nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 17 biophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 biophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biophysics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biophysics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in biophysics.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biophysics Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biophysics Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biophysics in the Southeast Region

1

University of Virginia - Main Campus
Charlottesville, Virginia

#4 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Virginia - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biophysics Major in the Southeast Region list. Charlottesville, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s biophysics degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Biophysics at University of Virginia

2

East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Carolina University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biophysics Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Greenville, North Carolina, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s biophysics degrees in 2020-2021.

Full East Carolina University Biophysics Report

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Notes and References

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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.