2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering & Applied Physics in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 engineering & applied physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in engineering & applied physics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering & applied physics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree applied physics students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering & Applied Physics in the Southwest Region

1

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Edmond, Oklahoma, this fairly large public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s applied physics students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UCO Engineering & Applied Physics Report

2

Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rice University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s applied physics degrees to 6 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Engineering & Applied Physics at Rice University

3

University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Tulsa. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s applied physics students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Tulsa Engineering & Applied Physics Report

3

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
Norman, Oklahoma

#20 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region list. Norman, Oklahoma is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s applied physics degrees to 4 students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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 University of Oklahoma

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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

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