2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Science in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” ranking.

Physical Science is the 179th most popular major in the country with 3,823 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 239 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 192 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in physical science. To top this list, a school must have a successful physical science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree physical sciences students.

Top 3 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Science in the Southeast Region

1

Richard Bland College of William and Mary
South Prince George, Virginia

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate 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 157 diplomas to qualified associates’s physical sciences students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Physical Science at Richard Bland College of William and Mary

2

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate. Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Perkinston, Mississippi. It awarded 34 associates’s physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Physical Science Report

3

Andrew College
Cuthbert, Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Andrew College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Physical Sciences Major in the Southeast Region for an Associate list. Andrew College is a small school located in Cuthbert, Georgia that handed out 1 associates’s physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Physical Science at Andrew College

• Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Science

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

• *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.