2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Far Western US Region
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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Astrophysics is the 598th most popular major in the country with 460 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 195 astrophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 astrophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree astrophysical sciences students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Astrophysics in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, California Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Caltech is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Pasadena, California. It awarded 11 masters’s astrophysical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Full Caltech Astrophysics Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Berkeley. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Far Western US Region. UC Berkeley is a public institution located in Berkeley, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full UC Berkeley Astrophysics Report
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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
- *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.