2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Science in Maryland

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 Physical Sciences Major in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Physical Science is the 179th most popular major in the country with 3,823 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Maryland, there were 21 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,642 and $26,517 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in Maryland” ranking, we looked at 2 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in Maryland

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Science in Maryland

1

United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, Maryland

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, United States Naval Academy landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Annapolis, Maryland, this small public school awarded 18 degrees to qualified bachelors’s physical sciences students in 2020-2021.

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University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, Maryland

#2 overall quality in Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in Maryland list. UMCP is located in College Park, Maryland and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s physical sciences degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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

• *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.