2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in Texas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in Texas” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Texas, there were 30 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,932 and $25,894 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in Texas” ranking, we looked at 2 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.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in Texas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in Texas”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences in Texas

1

Hardin - Simmons University
Abilene, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Hardin - Simmons University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Abilene, Texas, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s physical science degrees in 2020-2021.

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The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg, Texas

#19 overall quality in Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in Texas list. Located in Edinburg, Texas, this large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s physical science students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Physical Sciences at UT Rio Grande Valley

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences

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.