2023 Most Well Attended Natural Sciences Major in Arizona

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 “Most Well Attended Natural Sciences Major in Arizona” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Natural Sciences is the 208th most popular major in the country with 2,214 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, natural sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,745 and had an average of $18,648 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arizona, there were 750 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Natural Sciences Major in Arizona” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in natural sciences. To top this list, a school must have a successful natural sciences program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Natural Sciences Major in Arizona

The colleges and universities below are the best for arizona natural sciences students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Natural Sciences in Arizona

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Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#2 overall quality in Arizona

$49,374 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,611 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Natural Sciences Major in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified ’s natural sciences students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Arizona State University - Tempe Natural Sciences Report

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University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#3 overall quality in Arizona

$46,654 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,917 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Natural Sciences Major in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 4 ’s natural sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Natural Sciences at University of Arizona

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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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