Physics at Goucher College

What traits are you looking for in a physics school? To help you decide if Goucher College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's physics program.

Goucher is located in Baltimore, Maryland and approximately 2,015 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 2 students received a bachelor's degree in physics from Goucher.

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

Goucher Physics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physics

Goucher Physics Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the physics progam at Goucher compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The physics major at Goucher 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 Schools	475
Most Popular Physics Schools	668

Physics Student Demographics at Goucher

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the physics majors at Goucher College.

Goucher Physics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of physics bachelor's degrees went to men and 100% went to women. The typical physics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at Goucher since its program graduates 76% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 21% 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 Goucher College with a bachelor's in physics.

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

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

Related Majors

• 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 MD, the home state for Goucher College.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
High School Teachers	19,330	$72,610
Natural Sciences Managers	3,370	$148,310
Physicists	1,950	$120,450
Physics Postsecondary Professors	320	$134,200

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
• Image Credit: By Rob Coyle under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.