2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 30,075 people earned their degree in biological and physical sciences, making the major the 28th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 5,024 biological and physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 biological and physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in biological and physical sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in biological and physical sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Sciences in the Great Lakes Region

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Wright State University - Main Campus
Dayton, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wright State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This fairly large school is located in Dayton, Ohio, and it awarded 9 doctorate’s biological and physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Wright State University - Main Campus Biological & Physical Sciences Report

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University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Chicago. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region. This large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s biological and physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%.

Read more about Biological & Physical Sciences at University of Illinois at Chicago

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Sciences

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.