2023 Best Value Physical Sciences Schools in South Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Physical Sciences School for You

With 89 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, physical sciences is the #14 most popular major in South Carolina.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Physical Sciences Schools in South Carolina 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

#1

University of South Carolina - Columbia

Columbia, SC

45 Degrees

#3 in Quality in South Carolina

$12,688 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of South Carolina - Columbia to be the best value school for physical sciences students who want to pursue a degree in South Carolina. Located in the medium-sized city of Columbia, UofSC is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UofSC are $12,688 a year.

UofSC also made our Best Physical Sciences Schools in South Carolina list, coming in at #3.

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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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