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2022 Best Value Physical Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
7 Degrees Awarded
$11,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Physical Science Schools for a Bachelor's in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Physical Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 4,159 people earned their degree in general physical sciences, making the major the 135th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, general physical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $25,050 and had an average of $13,137 in loans still to pay off.

Across Georgia, there were 16 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,656 and $26,705 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general physical sciences programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general physical sciences program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Physical Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physical Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences (Income $0-$30k) in Georgia

#1

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emory University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Physical Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k list. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s physical science degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

Emory also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Physical Sciences Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking. It costs about $11,468 for Georgia Bachelor’s Degree Physical Science students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Emory.

The low student loan default rate of 1.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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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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