2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Sciences in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 30,032 people earned their degree in biological & physical sciences, making the major the 28th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,649 biological & physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 biological & physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in biological & physical sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in biological & physical sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree biological & physical sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rice University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Houston, Texas, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s biological & physical sciences students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Biological & Physical Sciences at Rice University

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Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

#5 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor College of Medicine. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region list. Baylor College of Medicine is a small school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 0 doctorate’s biological & physical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Biological & Physical Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine

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.