2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Physics in the New England Region

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In 2020-2021, 258 people earned their degree in health/medical physics, making the major the 770th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 2 health/medical physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 health/medical physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Physics Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in health/medical physics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in health/medical physics.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Physics Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree health/medical physics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Physics in the New England Region

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University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Physics Major in the New England Region. URI is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s health/medical physics degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full University of Rhode Island Health/Medical Physics Report

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University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health/Medical Physics Major in the New England Region. University of Massachusetts - Lowell is a public institution located in Lowell, Massachusetts. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Health/Medical Physics at University of Massachusetts - Lowell

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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.

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