2022 Best Value Health/Medical Physics Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Health/Medical Physics Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 231 people earned their degree in health/medical physics, making the major the 789th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 44 health/medical physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 health/medical physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great health/medical physics programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the health/medical physics program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Health/Medical Physics Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Health/Medical Physics Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree health/medical physics students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Physics in the Southeast Region

#1

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$50,624 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Health/Medical Physics Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s health/medical physics degrees in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Health/Medical Physics Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Vanderbilt are $50,624, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Health/Medical Physics at Vanderbilt University

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Physics

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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