Physics is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #62 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Physics Bachelor's Degree Schools in Wisconsin ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 145 bachelor's degrees in physics to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Physics School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of physics for getting your bachelor'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
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on physics students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of physics students who choose to seek a bachelor'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.
Student Debt - How much debt physics students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized physics related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for physics students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Physics Bachelor's Degree Schools in Wisconsin ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Physics in Wisconsin
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for physics students seeking a a bachelor's degree.
Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in physics needs to look into University of Wisconsin - Madison. UW - Madison is a fairly large public university located in the city of Madison.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the physics program state that they receive average early career earnings of $36,878.
It is hard to beat University of Wisconsin - La Crosse if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in physics. UW - La Crosse is a large public university located in the city of La Crosse.
Physics bachelor's degree recipients from University of Wisconsin - La Crosse get an earnings boost of about $3,261 over the typical earnings of physics graduates.
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).