2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southeast Region
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Engineering & Applied Physics is the 448th most popular major in the country with 1,044 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 135 engineering & applied physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 engineering & applied physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering & applied physics. That schools that top this list have a program in engineering & applied physics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree applied physics students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering & Applied Physics in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Daytona Beach, Florida, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 9 degrees to qualified masters’s applied physics students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Engineering & Applied Physics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Virginia - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 masters’s applied physics degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
Full University of Virginia Engineering & Applied Physics Report
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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%.
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- *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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