2023 Most Well Attended Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

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In 2020-2021, 994 people earned their degree in engineering and applied physics, making the major the 448th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 72 engineering and applied physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 engineering and applied physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering and applied physics. To top this list, a school must have a successful engineering and applied physics program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

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

Top 4 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. UCO is a fairly large public school situated in Edmond, Oklahoma. It awarded 3 masters’s applied physics degrees in 2020-2021.

Full UCO Engineering & Applied Physics Report

2

Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rice University landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 2 masters’s applied physics degrees in 2020-2021.

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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. 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.

Full Rice Engineering & Applied Physics Report

3

University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Tulsa landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Tulsa is a private not-for-profit institution located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Engineering & Applied Physics at University of Tulsa

3

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
Norman, Oklahoma

#20 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Applied Physics Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s. University of Oklahoma is a public institution located in Norman, Oklahoma. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Engineering & Applied Physics at University of Oklahoma

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering & Applied Physics

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA.