2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Natural Sciences Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Natural Sciences is the 208th most popular major in the country with 2,514 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , natural sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $25,745 and had an average of $19,618 in loans still to pay off.
At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,735 and $124,256 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in natural sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in natural sciences.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree natural sciences students.
Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Natural Sciences
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major. Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, this fairly large public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified doctorate’s natural sciences students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Natural Sciences Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major list. Virginia Commonwealth University is a large public school situated in Richmond, Virginia. It awarded 5 doctorate’s natural sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Natural Sciences at VCU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major list. University of Arizona is a large public school situated in Tucson, Arizona. It awarded 1 doctorate’s natural sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Natural Sciences at University of Arizona
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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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