When it comes to popularity, physical sciences sits in the middle of the road, ranking #19 out of 38 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Physical Sciences Schools in Louisiana ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 483 degrees in physical sciences during the 2021-2022 academic year.
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 Physical Sciences Schools in Louisiana list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of physical sciences degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in physical sciences. Louisiana State University is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Baton Rouge.
Degree recipients from the physical sciences program at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College get $2,276 above the typical graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a good choice for students interested in a degree in physical sciences. UL Lafayette is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Lafayette.
Those physical sciences students who get their degree from University of Louisiana at Lafayette receive $8,069 more than the typical physical sciences student.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
