2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering & Applied Physics in the Southwest Region
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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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Engineering & Applied Physics is the 448th most popular major in the country with 1,044 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 65 engineering & applied physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 engineering & applied physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering & applied physics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering & applied physics.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree applied physics students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering & Applied Physics in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rice University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s applied physics degrees in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Engineering & Applied Physics at Rice
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Norman, Oklahoma, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s applied physics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
Read more about Engineering & Applied Physics at University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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