2022 Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Washington

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Washington” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Physical Sciences is the 18th most popular major in the country with 52,879 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, physical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $38,122 and had an average of $22,339 in loans still to pay off.

Across Washington, there were 2,057 physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 808 physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,441 and $15,677 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great physical sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the physical sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Washington

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Washington.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Sciences in Washington

#1

Tacoma Community College

Tacoma, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$6,504 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Tacoma Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Tacoma, Washington is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s physical sciences degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

Tacoma Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Physical Sciences Associate Degree Schools in Washington” list. It costs about $6,504 for washington associate degree physical sciences students per year to attend Tacoma Community College.

Read full report on Physical Sciences at Tacoma Community College

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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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA.

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