2024 Best Engineering & Applied Physics Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in engineering & applied physics, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #219 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for engineering & applied physics students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 17 doctor's degrees in engineering & applied physics during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

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 colleges for engineering & applied physics students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Engineering & Applied Physics Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Engineering & Applied Physics Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Engineering & Applied Physics in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in engineering & applied physics.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Doctorate in Applied Physics

1

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

6 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in engineering & applied physics needs to look into Columbia University in the City of New York. Columbia is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.More information about a doctorate in engineering & applied physics from Columbia University in the City of New York

2

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

Cornell University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in engineering & applied physics. Located in the city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in engineering & applied physics from Cornell University

Best Engineering & Applied Physics Colleges by State

Explore the best engineering & applied physics colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	366	17
New Jersey	165	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Applied Physics

One of 0 majors within the Engineering Physics area of study, Engineering & Applied Physics has other similar majors worth exploring.

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.