General Physics is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #60 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of general physics. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 253 degrees in general physics annually.
Your choice of general physics school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general physics schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Schools in New Jersey list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the general physics degrees they offer, see the list below.
Rutgers University - New Brunswick is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general physics. Located in the small city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #74 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Rutgers New Brunswick is a great university overall.
There were about 45 general physics students who graduated with this degree at Rutgers New Brunswick in the most recent year we have data available.
Rowan University is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in general physics. Rowan is a large public university located in the large suburb of Glassboro. This university ranks 13th out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were roughly 37 general physics students who graduated with this degree at Rowan in the most recent data year.
The College of New Jersey is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in general physics. TCNJ is a medium-sized public college located in the suburb of Ewing. This college ranks 6th out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were about 16 general physics students who graduated with this degree at TCNJ in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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