2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physics Teacher Education Major in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 152 people earned their degree in physics education, making the major the 883rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1 physics education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 physics education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physics Teacher Education Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in physics education. That schools that top this list have a program in physics education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physics Teacher Education Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physics Teacher Education Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physics Education in the Southwest Region

1

Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Arizona University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physics Teacher Education Major in the Southwest Region list. NAU is a large public school situated in Flagstaff, Arizona. It awarded 1 bachelors’s physics teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physics Teacher Education Major in the Southwest Region. Edmond, Oklahoma is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s physics teacher education degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

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2

Abilene Christian University
Abilene, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Abilene Christian University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physics Teacher Education Major in the Southwest Region list. Abilene, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s physics teacher education degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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 Physics Education at Abilene Christian

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physics Education

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.

Credits

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