by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 13,674 people earned their degree in physics, making the major the 68th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, physics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,960 and had an average of $22,756 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 2,030 physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,858 and $23,908 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in physics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their physics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physics Major in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physics Major in the Southeast Region”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, East Mississippi Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Scooba, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s physics degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Itawamba Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Fulton, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s physics degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Copiah-Lincoln Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Wesson, Mississippi, this small public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified associates’s physics students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Physics at Copiah-Lincoln Community College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Andrew College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physics Major in the Southeast Region list. Andrew College is a small school located in Cuthbert, Georgia that handed out 0 associates’s physics degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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