2025 Best Science Education Schools in North Carolina
3Colleges in North Carolina
36Physical Science Education Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in science education, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #370 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for science education students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 36 degrees in science education annually.
The physical science education program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Science Education rankings. For our Best Overall Science Education School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Science Education Schools in North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Science Education in North Carolina
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the physical science education degree levels they offer.
Top North Carolina Schools in Physical Science Education
North Carolina State University is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in science education. Located in the city of Raleigh, NC State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #122 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means NC State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 13 science education students who graduated with this degree at NC State in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat East Carolina University if you want to pursue a degree in science education. Located in the small city of Greenville, ECU is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 16 science education students who graduated with this degree at ECU in the most recent year we have data available.
Western Carolina University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in science education. Located in the distant town of Cullowhee, WCU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 36th out of 93 colleges for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were about 3 science education students who graduated with this degree at WCU in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The physical science education program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Science Education rankings. For our Best Overall Science Education School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
