2022 Best Value Physics and Astronomy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Physics and Astronomy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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.
Across the Southeast region, there were 54 physics and astronomy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 physics and astronomy graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 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.
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 in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physics and Astronomy Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.
Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physics and Astronomy in the Southeast Region
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 in the Southeast Region. Located in Lexington, Kentucky, this large public school awarded 12 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s physics and astronomy students in 2019-2020.
UK also took the #1 spot in our “Best Physics and Astronomy Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UK is $17,127 for southeast region bachelor’s degree physics and astronomy students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
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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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