2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Physics in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Physics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Engineering Physics is the 244th most popular major in the country with 1,044 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , engineering physics graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $53,863 and had an average of $24,752 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 135 engineering physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,792 and $22,242 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 engineering physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Physics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering physics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering physics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Physics Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree engineering physics students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Physics in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Physics Major in the Southeast Region list. Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach is a fairly large school located in Daytona Beach, Florida that handed out 9 masters’s engineering physics degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Engineering Physics at Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering 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. Charlottesville, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering physics degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Engineering Physics at University of Virginia - Main 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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