2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences in the New England Region

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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 New England region, there were 44 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in the New England Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences in the New England Region

1

Wesleyan University
Middletown, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wesleyan University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in the New England Region. Located in Middletown, Connecticut, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s physical science students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about General Physical Sciences at Wesleyan University

2

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

#4 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Yale University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in the New England Region list. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 10 degrees to qualified masters’s physical science students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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%.

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3

Plymouth State University
Plymouth, New Hampshire

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Plymouth State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Plymouth State is located in Plymouth, New Hampshire and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s physical science degrees to qualified students.

Read more about General Physical Sciences at Plymouth State

• Most Focused Master’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.