by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physics Major in Louisiana” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Physics is the 68th most popular major in the country with 13,674 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Louisiana, there were 93 physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,232 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physics Major in Louisiana” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in physics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in physics.
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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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Physics Major in Louisiana” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physics Major in Louisiana”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Orleans. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physics Major in Louisiana. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this medium-sized public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified masters’s physics students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana Tech University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physics Major in Louisiana. Louisiana Tech is a public institution located in Ruston, Louisiana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physics Major in Louisiana list. University of Louisiana at Lafayette is located in Lafayette, Louisiana and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s physics degrees to qualified students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physics Major in Louisiana list. Tulane University of Louisiana is a fairly large school located in New Orleans, Louisiana that handed out 1 masters’s physics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. 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.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physics Major in Louisiana list. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s physics degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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