2023 Most Focused Colleges for Physical Science in Virginia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in Virginia” 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 Virginia, there were 157 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in physical science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in physical science.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia physical sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Physical Science in Virginia

1

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

#22 overall quality in Virginia

$21,038 Average Early-Career Earnings

$12,841 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Richard Bland College of William and Mary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in Virginia list. Richard Bland College of William and Mary is a small school located in South Prince George, Virginia that handed out 157 ’s physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Regent University
Virginia Beach, Virginia

$42,538 Average Early-Career Earnings

$29,051 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Regent University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in Virginia list. Regent is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It awarded 0 ’s physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

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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.