2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Science in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Physical Science is the 179th most popular major in the country with 3,141 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 221 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 164 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in physical science. That schools that top this list have a program in physical science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree physical sciences students.
Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Science in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Richard Bland College of William and Mary. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. South Prince George, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s physical sciences degrees to 132 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Physical Science at Richard Bland College of William and Mary
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Andrew College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. Andrew College is a small school located in Cuthbert, Georgia that handed out 0 associates’s physical sciences degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read full report on Physical Science at Andrew College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. Perkinston, Mississippi is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s physical sciences degrees to 31 students in 2021-2022.
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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.
