2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Physical Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,195 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,400 and $13,605 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,944 and $116,843 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general physical sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Physical Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Physical Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physical Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester, New York

#1 in overall quality

$50,442 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rochester Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Physical Science Schools for a Doctorate in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Rochester, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 20 degrees to qualified doctorate’s physical science students in 2019-2020.

RIT also made our “Best General Physical Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at RIT are $50,442.

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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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