2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physics and Astronomy Major
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Ranked Colleges
17
Degrees Awarded
$36,000
Avg Cost*
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Physics and Astronomy Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Physics and Astronomy is the 1150th most popular major in the country with 55 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 physics and astronomy graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in physics and astronomy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physics and Astronomy Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree physics and astronomy students.
Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Physics and Astronomy
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physics and Astronomy Major list. Lexington, Kentucky is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s physics and astronomy degrees to 17 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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
- *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.
