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Best Value General Physical Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools

2023 Best Value General Physical Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$52,408 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best General Physical Sciences Doctor's Degree School for You

General Physical Sciences is the #147 most popular major in the country with 3,823 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

The Best Value General Physical Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for physical science students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in General Physical Sciences

Our analysis found Rochester Institute of Technology to be the best value school for general physical sciences students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the United States. RIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Rochester.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at RIT are $52,408 per year.

RIT also claimed a spot on our Best General Physical Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Wright State University - Main Campus is a great value for general physical sciences students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the suburb of Dayton, Wright State University - Main Campus is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Wright State University - Main Campus graduate students pay an average of $24,286 in tuition and fees each year.

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General Physical Sciences by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

One of 8 majors within the area of study, general physical sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Physical Science

Related Major Annual Graduates
Chemistry 21,239
Physics 13,674
Geological & Earth Sciences 7,821
Astronomy & Astrophysics 1,375
Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology 1,140

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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