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2023 Most Popular Online Physical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

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Physical Sciences is the #19 most popular major in the country with 50,306 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Most Popular Online Physical Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which online graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Online Physical Sciences Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our analysis found Western Michigan University to be the most popular school for physical sciences students who want to pursue an online graduate certificate in the Great Lakes Region . WMU is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Kalamazoo.

About 83% of the students majoring in physical sciences at the school are women while 17% are male.

Full Physical Sciences at Western Michigan University Report

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Indiana University - East is a great place for physical sciences students working on their online graduate certificate. Located in the rural area of Richmond, IU East is a public school with a small student population.

About 50% of the students majoring in physical sciences at the school are women while 50% are male.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Indiana University - Northwest is a great place for physical sciences students working on their online graduate certificate. Located in the small city of Gary, IU Northwest is a public school with a small student population.

Read full report on Physical Sciences at Indiana University - Northwest

Explore the most popular online physical sciences schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 951
Michigan 1,288
Ohio 1,581
Illinois 1,686
Wisconsin 873

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Physical Sciences Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Chemistry 21,239
Physics 13,674
Geological & Earth Sciences 7,821
General Physical Sciences 3,823
Astronomy & Astrophysics 1,375
Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology 1,140
Materials Sciences 658
Other Physical Science 538
Physics and Astronomy 38

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer & Information Sciences 254,454
Engineering 198,468
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 177,778
Engineering Technologies 85,188
Mathematics & Statistics 52,396

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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