2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$21,038
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Physical Sciences is the 144th most popular major in the country with 3,823 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general physical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,561 and had an average of $12,761 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 239 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,038 and $12,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 192 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general physical sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in general physical sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences in the Southeast Region
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 for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in the Southeast Region list. South Prince George, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s physical science degrees to 157 students in 2020-2021.
Full Richard Bland College of William and Mary General Physical Sciences Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Andrew College landed the #2 spot on the list. Andrew College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Cuthbert, Georgia. It awarded 1 associates’s physical science degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about General Physical Sciences at Andrew College
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Perkinston, Mississippi, and it awarded 34 associates’s physical science degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College General Physical Sciences 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
- *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.
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