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2023 Best Value Physical Sciences Schools in Wisconsin

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$10,720 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$40,862 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Physical Sciences School for You

With 210 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, physical sciences is the #13 most popular major in Wisconsin.

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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Physical Sciences Schools in Wisconsin ranking.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Physical Sciences Colleges.

Best Physical Sciences School

$10,720 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Wisconsin - Madison to be the best value school for physical sciences students who want to pursue a degree in Wisconsin. UW - Madison is a very large public school located in the city of Madison.

UW - Madison undergraduate students pay an average of $10,720 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UW - Madison did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Physical Sciences Schools in Wisconsin list.

Full Physical Sciences at University of Wisconsin - Madison Report

Best Value Physical Sciences Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Physical Sciences Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Illinois 588
Indiana 270
Ohio 536
Michigan 415

Physical Sciences Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Chemistry 5,005
Physics 3,727
Geological & Earth Sciences 2,491
Materials Sciences 448
Astronomy & Astrophysics 371
Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology 342
Other Physical Science 191
General Physical Sciences 107
Physics and Astronomy 23

Majors Similar to Physical Sciences

Related Major Annual Graduates
Engineering 61,791
Computer & Information Sciences 60,971
Biological & Biomedical Sciences 28,851
Mathematics & Statistics 15,127
Engineering Technologies 7,672

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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