2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physics in Connecticut

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Physics Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 14,123 people earned their degree in physics, making the major the 67th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, physics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $42,475 and had an average of $22,421 in loans still to pay off.

Across Connecticut, there were 203 physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $20,300 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,570 and $105,639 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality physics programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Value Physics Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physics Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Physics in Connecticut

#1

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$41,576 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Physics Schools for a Doctorate in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #1 spot on the list. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s physics degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

UCONN also took the #1 spot in our “Best Physics Doctor’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UCONN are $41,576, 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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