Physics at St Olaf College

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

St. Olaf is located in Northfield, Minnesota and approximately 2,953 students attend the school each year. Of the 942 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from St Olaf 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.

St. Olaf Physics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physics

St. Olaf Physics Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks physics programs across the country. The following shows how St. Olaf 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 St. Olaf 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
Best Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	25
Best Physics Schools	25
	89
Best Value Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	170

Physics Student Demographics at St. Olaf

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

St. Olaf Physics Bachelor’s Program

Of the 14 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in physics from St. Olaf in 2021, 64% were men and 36% were women. The typical physics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at St. Olaf since its program graduates 11% more women than average.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in physics at St. Olaf 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 St Olaf College with a bachelor's in physics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	8
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

St. Olaf 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 MN, the home state for St Olaf College.

Occupation	Jobs in MN	Average Salary in MN
High School Teachers	20,940	$64,610
Natural Sciences Managers	1,490	$125,780
Physics Postsecondary Professors	260	$99,980
Physicists	190	$155,140

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 Daniel Edwins a.k.a. Webmoof of English Wikipedia under License

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