2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Physical Science Major in the Plains States Region

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Other Physical Science is the 276th most popular major in the country with 538 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, physical sciences (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,982 and had an average of $26,811 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 8 physical sciences (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 physical sciences (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Physical Science Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in physical sciences (other). That schools that top this list have a program in physical sciences (other) in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Physical Science Major in the Plains States Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Physical Science in the Plains States Region

1

Black Hills State University
Spearfish, South Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Black Hills State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Physical Science Major in the Plains States Region. BHSU is a small school located in Spearfish, South Dakota that handed out 7 bachelors’s physical sciences (other) degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Other Physical Science at BHSU

2

The College of Saint Scholastica
Duluth, Minnesota

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The College of Saint Scholastica. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Physical Science Major in the Plains States Region list. St. Scholastica is a small school located in Duluth, Minnesota that handed out 1 bachelors’s physical sciences (other) degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%.

Read full report on Other Physical Science at St. Scholastica

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Physical Science

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.

Credits

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