2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Astrophysics in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Astrophysics is the 598th most popular major in the country with 436 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 15 astrophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 astrophysics graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
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 Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree astrophysical sciences students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Astrophysics in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Astrophysical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 8 doctorate’s astrophysical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Astrophysics at Vanderbilt University
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.
