2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Science in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 80 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in physical science. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular physical science programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Science in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#2 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. University of Chicago is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 24 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 100%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Physical Science at UChicago

2

Wright State University - Main Campus
Dayton, Ohio

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Wright State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Wright State University - Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Dayton, Ohio. It awarded 1 masters’s physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Wright State University - Main Campus Physical Science 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

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.