2021 Best Physics Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Middle Atlantic Region
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1,581Bachelor's Degrees
$33,248Avg Cost*
Finding the Best Physics Schools for Non-Traditional Students
This year's Best Physics Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer a bachelor's 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.
The physics school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Physics Schools for Non-Traditional Students.
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 Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for non-traditional students studying physics.
Stony Brook University tops the 2021 list of our schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that are best for non-traditional physics students. Located in the large suburb of Stony Brook, SUNY Stony Brook is a public college with a very large student population. In addition to being on our best for non-traditional students list, SUNY Stony Brook has also earned the #2 rank in our Best Colleges for Physics in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking.
The student loan default rate at SUNY Stony Brook is lower than is typical, just 1.0% of students default in three years. There are approximately 14,521 students at SUNY Stony Brook that take at least one class online. 4,151 students are part time.
The #2 spot in this year's ranking belongs to Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus. Penn State University Park is a fairly large public school located in the city of University Park. As a testament to the quality of education offered at Penn State University Park, the school also landed the #4 rank in our Best Colleges for Physics in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking.
About 0.0% of Penn State University Park students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. All students are part time.
Our rankings recognize Rowan University as the #3 school in this year's rankings. Rowan is a large public school located in the large suburb of Glassboro. Rowan did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Colleges for Physics in the Middle Atlantic Region list.
The student loan default rate at Rowan is lower than is typical, just 1.9% of students default in three years. Approximately 7,269 students take at least one class online at Rowan. There are roughly 3,878 part time students in attendance at Rowan.
University of Maryland - College Park earned the #4 spot in our 2021 rankings. UMCP is a very large public school located in the large suburb of College Park. UMCP also made our Best Colleges for Physics in the Middle Atlantic Region list, coming in at #3.
The student loan default rate at UMCP is lower than is typical, just 0.7% of students default in three years. There are approximately 11,700 students at UMCP that take at least one class online. About 4,841 of the students at UMCP are attending part time.
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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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