2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Astrophysics in the Southeast 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 460 people earned their degree in astrophysics, making the major the 598th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 7 astrophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 astrophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in astrophysics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in astrophysics.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Astrophysics in the Southeast Region

1

Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Agnes Scott College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. Agnes Scott is a small school located in Decatur, Georgia that handed out 5 bachelors’s astrophysical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Astrophysics at Agnes Scott College

2

Oglethorpe University
Atlanta, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oglethorpe University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. Oglethorpe University is a small school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 0 bachelors’s astrophysical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Astrophysics at Oglethorpe University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Astrophysics

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.