2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Astronomy & Astrophysics in the Southeast Region
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Astronomy Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Astronomy & Astrophysics is the 222nd most popular major in the country with 1,268 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, astronomy and astrophysics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $27,700 and had an average of $21,346 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 146 astronomy and astrophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 astronomy and astrophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent astronomy and astrophysics programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the astronomy and astrophysics program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Astronomy Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree astronomy students.
Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Astronomy & Astrophysics in the Southeast Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Astronomy Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Virginia - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Virginia - Main Campus is a large school located in Charlottesville, Virginia that handed out 7 masters’s astronomy degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Virginia, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Astronomy & Astrophysics Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Virginia - Main Campus are $32,394, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
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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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