2021 Best Physics Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges
1,088Bachelor's Degrees
$36,321Avg Cost*
Finding the Best Physics Schools for Non-Traditional Students
This year's Best Physics Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Great Lakes Region ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a bachelor's degree in physics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent physics programs, but they also offer a lot of support to non-traditional students.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as affordability, and overall quality of the physics program 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 Best Physics Schools for Non-Traditional Students list to help you make the college decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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2021 Best Physics Schools for Non-Traditional Students in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for non-traditional students studying physics.
Ohio State University - Main Campus has taken the #1 spot in this year's physics ranking for non-traditional students. Ohio State is a very large public school located in the city of Columbus. Ohio State not only placed well in our non-traditional rankings. It is also #2 on our Best Colleges for Physics in the Great Lakes Region list.
About 1.2% of Ohio State students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. There are approximately 42,293 students at Ohio State that take at least one class online. There are roughly 8,459 part time students in attendance at Ohio State.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign comes in at #2 in this year's ranking. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Champaign. As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIUC, the school also landed the #3 rank in our Best Colleges for Physics in the Great Lakes Region ranking.
The student loan default rate at UIUC is lower than is typical, just 0.6% of students default in three years. There are approximately 35,475 students at UIUC that take at least one class online. About 10,007 of the students at UIUC are attending part time.
Michigan State University landed the #3 spot in our 2021 best physics schools for non-traditional students. Located in the city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public school with a fairly large student population. Michigan State also made our Best Colleges for Physics in the Great Lakes Region list, coming in at #4.
The student loan default rate at Michigan State is lower than is typical, just 0.8% of students default in three years. There are approximately 33,526 students at Michigan State that take at least one class online. 6,517 of Michigan State students are attending part time.
University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #4 spot in our 2021 best physics schools for non-traditional students. UW - Madison is a very large public school located in the city of Madison. UW - Madison did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Colleges for Physics in the Great Lakes Region list.
About 0.2% of UW - Madison students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. There are approximately 11,375 students at UW - Madison that take at least one class online. 4,683 of UW - Madison students are attending part time.
Non-Traditional Student Rankings in Majors Related to Physics
Physics is one of 8 different types of Physical Sciences programs to choose from.
Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Cost is for the top 4 schools only.
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 the rest 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).
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