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

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Out of all the majors we analyze each year, physical sciences was ranked #19 in the country. In fact 50,306 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Southwest Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 1 school in the Southwest Region offering online graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following school tops our list of the Most Popular Online Physical Sciences Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our analysis found New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology to be the most popular school for physical sciences students who want to pursue an online graduate certificate in the Southwest Region . New Mexico Tech is a small public school located in the remote town of Socorro.

Read full report on Physical Sciences at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Explore the most popular online physical sciences colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 1,469
Texas 2,811
New Mexico 288
Oklahoma 558

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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

Majors Similar to Physical Sciences

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 values are for the top school 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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