2024 Best General Physics Doctor's Degree Schools in Virginia
3Colleges in Virginia
43Doctor's Degrees
Ranked #19 in popularity, general physics is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Physics Doctor's Degree Schools in Virginia ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 43 doctor's degrees in general physics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Physics School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of general physics for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general physics students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general physics students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general physics related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general physics students working on their doctor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Physics Doctor's Degree Schools in Virginia list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study General Physics in Virginia
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in general physics.
Top Virginia Schools for a Doctorate in General Physics
One of 9 majors within the Physics area of study, General Physics has other similar majors worth exploring.
Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).