2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Physics Major in Pennsylvania
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Physics Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 467 people earned their degree in other physics, making the major the 596th most popular in the United States.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 13 other physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 other physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,741 and $27,572 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Physics Major in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other physics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other physics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Physics Major in Pennsylvania
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Physics Major in Pennsylvania”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Physics in Pennsylvania
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Physics Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the #1 spot on the list. Drexel University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Other Physics at Drexel
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carnegie Mellon University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Physics Major in Pennsylvania list. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s other physics students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Carnegie Mellon University Other Physics Report
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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
- *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.
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