Physics at California State University - East Bay

If you are interested in studying physics, you may want to check out the program at California State University - East Bay. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Cal State East Bay is located in Hayward, California and has a total student population of 16,253. Of the 4,189 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from California State University - East Bay in 2021, 7 of them were physics majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Physics section at the bottom of this page.

Cal State East Bay Physics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physics

Cal State East Bay Physics Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks physics programs across the country. The following shows how Cal State East Bay performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The physics major at Cal State East Bay is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Physics. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	573

Physics Student Demographics at Cal State East Bay

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the physics majors at California State University - East Bay.

Cal State East Bay Physics Bachelor’s Program

Of the 7 physics students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Cal State East Bay, about 71% were men and 29% were women. The typical physics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at Cal State East Bay since its program graduates 4% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% more racial-ethnic minorities in its physics bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - East Bay with a bachelor's in physics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Cal State East Bay also has a doctoral program available in physics. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Geological & Earth Sciences
• Chemistry

Careers That Physics Grads May Go Into

A degree in physics can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for California State University - East Bay.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
High School Teachers	112,960	$80,510
Natural Sciences Managers	7,870	$168,790
Physicists	3,200	$115,970
Physics Postsecondary Professors	1,190	$138,250

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.