Physics at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

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

MCLA is located in North Adams, Massachusetts and approximately 1,202 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students received a bachelor's degree in physics from MCLA.

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

MCLA Physics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physics

MCLA Physics Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the physics progam at MCLA 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 MCLA 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	77
Most Popular Physics Schools	505

Physics Student Demographics at MCLA

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

MCLA Physics Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics from MCLA. About 60% were men and 40% were women. The typical physics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at MCLA since its program graduates 16% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% 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 Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts with a bachelor's in physics.

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

MCLA 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 MA, the home state for Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
High School Teachers	26,420	$80,020
Natural Sciences Managers	4,040	$183,490
Physics Postsecondary Professors	550	$116,470
Physicists	360	$150,170

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 Magicpiano under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.