2025 Best Engineering Physics Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
178Engineering Physics Degrees Awarded
$64,465Avg Early-Career Salary
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in engineering physics. It is ranked #244 out of 395 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Engineering Physics Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 178 degrees in engineering physics to qualified students.
The engineering physics program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Engineering Physics rankings. We derive our Best Overall Engineering Physics School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Engineering Physics Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Engineering Physics in the Middle Atlantic Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the engineering physics degree levels they offer.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Engineering Physics
Columbia University in the City of New York is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in engineering physics. Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 43 engineering physics students who graduated with this degree at Columbia in the most recent year we have data available.
Cornell University is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a degree in engineering physics. Cornell is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Ithaca. A Best Colleges rank of #9 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Cornell is a great university overall.
There were about 54 engineering physics students who graduated with this degree at Cornell in the most recent year we have data available.
Delaware State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in engineering physics. Located in the small city of Dover, Del State is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 1409th out of 2,152 colleges for overall quality nationwide.
There were about 8 engineering physics students who graduated with this degree at Del State in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The engineering physics program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Engineering Physics rankings. We derive our Best Overall Engineering Physics School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
