2022 Best Value Natural Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Natural Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 2,345 people earned their degree in natural sciences, making the major the 339th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 146 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent natural sciences programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the natural sciences 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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Best Value Natural Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree natural sciences students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Sciences in the Southeast Region

#1

Virginia Commonwealth University

Richmond, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$29,228 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Natural Sciences Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region list. Virginia Commonwealth University is a large school located in Richmond, Virginia that handed out 5 doctorate’s natural sciences degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region doctor’s degree natural sciences students list, VCU has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Natural Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at VCU are $29,228, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Natural Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University

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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

• *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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