2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Astrophysics in Texas
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Texas” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Astrophysics is the 598th most popular major in the country with 460 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Texas, there were 7 astrophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 astrophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,932 and $25,894 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in Texas” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in astrophysics. That schools that top this list have a program in astrophysics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in Texas
The colleges and universities below are the best for texas bachelor’s degree astrophysical sciences students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Astrophysics in Texas
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rice University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in Texas. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s astrophysical sciences degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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 full report on Astrophysics at Rice University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Waco, Texas, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s astrophysical sciences students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Astrophysics at Baylor
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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
- *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.