2024 Best Engineering Physics Schools in Massachusetts
3Colleges in Massachusetts
24Engineering Physics Degrees Awarded
Engineering Physics degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #244 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of engineering physics. Combined, these schools handed out 24 degrees in engineering physics to qualified students.
Your choice of engineering physics school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for engineering physics schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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Best Schools for Engineering Physics in Massachusetts
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 engineering physics degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student pursuing a degree in engineering physics has to look into Harvard University. Located in the city of Cambridge, Harvard is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #6 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Harvard is a great university overall.
There were approximately 17 engineering physics students who graduated with this degree at Harvard in the most recent data year.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in engineering physics. Located in the midsize city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population. This school ranks 5th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.More information about a degree in engineering physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Tufts University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in engineering physics. Located in the large suburb of Medford, Tufts is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 7 engineering physics students who graduated with this degree at Tufts 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).