Physics at Scripps College

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

Scripps is located in Claremont, California and approximately 958 students attend the school each year. Of the 301 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Scripps College in 2021, 5 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.

Scripps Physics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physics

Scripps Physics Rankings

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

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 Scripps 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	79
Most Popular Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	403
Most Popular Physics Schools	505

Physics Student Demographics at Scripps

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

Scripps Physics Bachelor’s Program

Of the 5 physics students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Scripps, about 0% were men and 100% were women. The typical physics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at Scripps since its program graduates 76% 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 Scripps College with a bachelor's in physics.

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

Scripps 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 Scripps College.

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
• Image Credit: By Lure Photography under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.