2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physics Education

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Physics Education is the 883rd most popular major in the country with 152 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 physics education graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Physics Teacher Education Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in physics education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their physics education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Physics Teacher Education Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Physics Teacher Education Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physics Education

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Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana

Top 25% overall quality in United States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Physics Teacher Education Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Ball State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Ball State University is a public institution located in Muncie, Indiana. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Physics Teacher Education Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #1 spot on the list. WMU is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 doctorate’s physics teacher education degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Physics Education at Western Michigan University

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Aparajita Datta.