Best Engineering & Applied Physics Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Engineering & Applied Physics Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Engineering & Applied Physics School for Your Doctor's Degree

The applied physics doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on engineering & applied physics students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other engineering & applied physics students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized engineering & applied physics related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for engineering & applied physics students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

As a result of lacking data, we were not able to provide you with the engineering & applied physics quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer engineering & applied physics and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Engineering & Applied Physics by Region

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Rankings in Majors Related to Applied Physics

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Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA. More about our data sources and methodologies.