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2023 Best Value Physical Sciences Schools in Missouri

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$9,885 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$34,099 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Physical Sciences School for You

Physical Sciences is the #21 most popular major in Missouri with 208 degrees and certificates awarded 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Physical Sciences Schools in Missouri to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Missouri to see which ones offered the best value programs for physical sciences students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

2023 Best Value Physical Sciences Schools in Missouri

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Physical Sciences Colleges.

Best Missouri Schools for Affordable Quality in Physical Sciences

$8,294 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Missouri State University - Springfield the best value school in Missouri for physical sciences students. Missouri State is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Springfield.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Missouri State are $8,294 a year.

Full Physical Sciences at Missouri State University - Springfield Report

$12,015 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at University of Missouri - St Louis helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best physical sciences schools in Missouri. UMSL is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Saint Louis.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UMSL are $12,015 per year.

Full Physical Sciences at University of Missouri - St Louis Report

$11,475 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Missouri - Columbia is a great value for physical sciences students. Mizzou is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Columbia.

Mizzou undergraduate students pay an average of $11,475 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Mizzou also made our Best Physical Sciences Schools in Missouri list, coming in at #4.

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Best Value Physical Sciences Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Physical Sciences Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 102
Minnesota 157
Iowa 103
North Dakota 25
Nebraska 40
South Dakota 48

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 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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