2022 Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Nevada

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Nevada” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Physical Sciences is the 18th most popular major in the country with 52,879 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, physical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $38,122 and had an average of $22,339 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nevada, there were 329 physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $18,372 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 123 physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,600 and $18,765 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent physical sciences programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the physical sciences program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Nevada” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Nevada

The colleges and universities below are the best for nevada associate degree physical sciences students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Sciences in Nevada

#1

Western Nevada College

Carson City, Nevada

#1 in overall quality

$10,819 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Nevada College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Physical Sciences Schools for an Associate in Nevada list. Carson City, Nevada is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s physical sciences degrees to 112 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WNC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Physical Sciences Associate Degree Schools in Nevada” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Western Nevada College is $10,819 for Nevada Associate Degree Physical Sciences students.

Read full report on Physical Sciences at WNC

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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