2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Sciences in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Biological & Physical Sciences is the 28th most popular major in the country with 30,075 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,580 biological and physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 562 biological and physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in biological and physical sciences. To top this list, a school must have a successful biological and physical sciences program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate

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

Top 4 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

San Jacinto Community College
Pasadena, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Jacinto Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate list. Pasadena, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s biological and physical sciences degrees to 537 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Biological & Physical Sciences at San Jacinto Community College

2

Angelina College
Lufkin, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Angelina College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate list. Angelina College is a public institution located in Lufkin, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 13 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full AC Biological & Physical Sciences Report

3

Murray State College
Tishomingo, Oklahoma

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Murray State College landed the #3 spot on the list. Murray State College is a small school located in Tishomingo, Oklahoma that handed out 6 associates’s biological and physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Biological & Physical Sciences at Murray State College

3

Central Arizona College
Coolidge, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Biological & Physical Sciences Major in the Southwest Region for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Arizona College landed the #3 spot on the list. Pinal County Community College is a small public school situated in Coolidge, Arizona. It awarded 6 associates’s biological and physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Biological & Physical Sciences at Central Arizona College

• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Sciences

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.