Physics at Siena College

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

Siena is located in Loudonville, New York and has a total student population of 3,425. Of the 778 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Siena College in 2021, 14 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.

Siena Physics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physics

Siena Physics Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks physics programs across the country. The following shows how Siena 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 Siena 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	85
Most Focused Physics Schools	101
Most Popular Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	163
Most Popular Physics Schools	266

Physics Student Demographics at Siena

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

Siena Physics Bachelor’s Program

Of the 14 physics students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Siena, about 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical physics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at Siena since its program graduates 26% more women than average.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in physics at Siena are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Siena College with a bachelor's in physics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	10
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Siena 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 NY, the home state for Siena College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
High School Teachers	74,830	$85,300
Physics Postsecondary Professors	1,430	$117,370
Natural Sciences Managers	1,360	$148,460
Physicists	950	$138,920

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 UpstateNYer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.