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2023 Most Popular General Physical Sciences Schools in California

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Finding the Best General Physical Sciences School for You

In 2020-2021, 13 degrees and certificates were awarded to general physical sciences students who went to a California college or university. This makes it the #215 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular General Physical Sciences Schools in California to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 1 schools in California to see which programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the General Physical Sciences program at each school on the list.

The following school tops our list of the Most Popular General Physical Sciences Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Naval Postgraduate School the most popular school in California for general physical sciences students. Located in the midsize suburb of Monterey, Naval Postgraduate School is a public school with a small student population.

Read full report on General Physical Sciences at Naval Postgraduate School

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State Degrees Awarded

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

Related Major Annual Graduates
Chemistry 5,005
Physics 3,727
Geological & Earth Sciences 2,491
Materials Sciences 448
Astronomy & Astrophysics 371

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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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