2021 Best Physics Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Southeast Region
2Colleges
1,440Bachelor's Degrees
$30,627Avg Cost*
Finding the Best Physics Schools for Non-Traditional Students
For this year's Best Physics Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Southeast Region ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a bachelor's in physics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality physics programs as well as strong support for students classified as non-traditional.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the physics program at the school, affordability, and presence of non-traditional students. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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2021 Best Physics Schools for Non-Traditional Students in the Southeast Region
Check out the physics programs at these schools if you want to see which ones are the best for non-traditional students.
Virginia Tech has taken the #1 spot in this year's physics ranking for non-traditional students. Located in the city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public school with a very large student population. Virginia Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Colleges for Physics in the Southeast Region list.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 0.5%. There are approximately 19,796 students at Virginia Tech that take at least one class online. 2,831 of Virginia Tech students are attending part time.
The #2 spot in this year's ranking belongs to University of Florida. UF is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Gainesville. UF also made our Best Colleges for Physics in the Southeast Region list, coming in at #2.
The student loan default rate at UF is lower than is typical, just 0.9% of students default in three years. There are approximately 22,865 students at UF that take at least one class online. About 11,205 of the students at UF are attending part time.
Non-Traditional Student Rankings in Majors Related to Physics
Physics is one of 8 different types of Physical Sciences programs to choose from.
Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Cost is for the top 2 schools only.
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 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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