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2022 Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
7 Degrees Awarded
$19,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 87 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the physical science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Physical Science in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s physical sciences degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

Michigan State also took the #1 spot in our “Best Physical Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $19,173 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree physical sciences students with aid per year to attend Michigan State University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

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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

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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