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Physics at Marquette University

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

Marquette is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and approximately 11,550 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,386 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Marquette University in 2021, 3 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.

Marquette Physics Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Physics

Marquette Physics Rankings

The physics major at Marquette 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.

Physics Student Demographics at Marquette

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

Marquette Physics Bachelor’s Program

67% Women
33% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The physics program at Marquette awarded 3 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 33% of these degrees went to men with the other 67% going to women. The typical physics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at Marquette since its program graduates 42% more women than average.

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About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in physics at Marquette are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% 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 Marquette University with a bachelor's in physics.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 2
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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

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 WI, the home state for Marquette University.

Occupation Jobs in WI Average Salary in WI
High School Teachers 20,070 $58,360
Natural Sciences Managers 610 $106,110
Physics Postsecondary Professors 280 $84,200
Physicists 90 $150,670

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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