2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 3,823 people earned their degree in physical science, making the major the 179th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 239 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 192 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in physical science. That schools that top this list have a program in physical science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Science in the Southeast Region

1

Richard Bland College of William and Mary
South Prince George, Virginia

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Richard Bland College of William and Mary. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. Located in South Prince George, Virginia, this small public school awarded 157 degrees to qualified associates’s physical sciences students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Physical Science at Richard Bland College of William and Mary

2

Andrew College
Cuthbert, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Andrew College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. Andrew College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Cuthbert, Georgia. It awarded 1 associates’s physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Physical Science at Andrew College

3

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a medium-sized school located in Perkinston, Mississippi that handed out 34 associates’s physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Physical Science Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Science

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.