2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Physical Science Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 3,823 people earned their degree in general physical sciences, making the major the 144th most popular in the United States. 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 Great Lakes region, there were 80 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,940 and $12,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 general physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Physical Science Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general physical sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular general physical sciences programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Physical Science Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree physical science students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for General Physical Sciences in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#2 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Chicago. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Physical Science Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s. University of Chicago is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 24 masters’s physical science degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 100%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Physical Sciences at University of Chicago

2

Wright State University - Main Campus
Dayton, Ohio

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Physical Science Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Wright State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Dayton, Ohio, and it awarded 1 masters’s physical science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Physical Sciences at Wright State University - Main Campus

• Most Popular 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.