2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Astrophysics is the 598th most popular major in the country with 436 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 107 astrophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 astrophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,902 and $128,547 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in astrophysics. That schools that top this list have a program in astrophysics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree astrophysical sciences students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Astrophysics in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Princeton University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Princeton University is a medium-sized school located in Princeton, New Jersey that handed out 12 doctorate’s astrophysical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rochester Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Rochester, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s astrophysical sciences students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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%.
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- *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.
