2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Physics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

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In 2021-2022, 502 people earned their degree in other physics, making the major the 596th most popular in the United States.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 36 other physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 other physics graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,612 and $39,317 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Physics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other physics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other physics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Physics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree other physics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Physics in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado

#1 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado School of Mines. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Physics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Mines is a medium-sized public school situated in Golden, Colorado. It awarded 6 masters’s other physics degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Mines Other Physics Report

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Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Idaho State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Physics Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Pocatello, Idaho is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s other physics degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Other Physics at ISU

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.

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