2022 Best Value Biological & Physical Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Biological & Physical Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Biological & Physical Sciences is the 29th most popular major in the country with 29,162 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southwest region, there were 570 biological and physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 biological and physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality biological and physical sciences programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the biological and physical sciences program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value Biological & Physical Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree biological & physical sciences students.
Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Sciences in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rice University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Biological & Physical Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region. Rice is located in Houston, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 doctorate’s biological and physical sciences degrees to qualified students.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Rice, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Biological & Physical Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Rice are $47,913, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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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%.
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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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