2023 Most Well Attended Health/Medical Physics Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Health/Medical Physics Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Southeast region, there were 41 health/medical physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 health/medical physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Health/Medical Physics Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in health/medical physics. To top this list, a school must have a successful health/medical physics program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Well Attended Health/Medical Physics Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree health/medical physics students.
Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Health/Medical Physics in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Health/Medical Physics Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate list. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, this large public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified doctorate’s health/medical physics students in 2020-2021.
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 86%.
Read more about Health/Medical Physics at UK
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Health/Medical Physics Major in the Southeast Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #2 spot on the list. Vanderbilt University is a fairly large school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 2 doctorate’s health/medical physics degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Vanderbilt Health/Medical Physics Report
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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
- *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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