2022 Best Value Physics and Astronomy Schools for a Bachelor’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Physics and Astronomy Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking.

Physics and Astronomy is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 55 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 physics and astronomy graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great physics and astronomy programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the physics and astronomy program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Physics and Astronomy Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physics and Astronomy Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physics and Astronomy

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$17,127 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Physics and Astronomy Schools for a Bachelor’s. UK is a large school located in Lexington, Kentucky that handed out 12 bachelors’s physics and astronomy degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UK, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Physics and Astronomy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UK is $17,127 for bachelor’s degree physics and astronomy students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full UK Physics and Astronomy Report

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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