2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physics and Astronomy in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Physics and Astronomy Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 55 physics and astronomy students received their degree, making the major the most popular in the country.

Across the Southeast region, there were 54 physics and astronomy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 physics and astronomy graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent physics and astronomy programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the physics and astronomy program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Physics and Astronomy Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree physics and astronomy students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physics and Astronomy in the Southeast Region

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$33,216 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

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 Doctorate in the Southeast Region. University of Kentucky is located in Lexington, Kentucky and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 doctorate’s physics and astronomy degrees to qualified students.

UK did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Physics and Astronomy Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UK are $33,216, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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