2022 Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Physical Science is the 154th most popular major in the country with 4,159 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 214 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 171 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great physical science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the physical science program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Science (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Richard Bland College of William and Mary

South Prince George, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$13,358 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Richard Bland College of William and Mary landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in South Prince George, Virginia, this small public school awarded 168 diplomas to qualified associates’s physical sciences students in 2019-2020.

RBC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Physical Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for RBC is $13,358 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Physical Sciences students whose families make $48-$75k.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Science (Income $48-$75k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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