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2023 Most Popular Online Physical Sciences Schools in the Far Western US Region

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$41,747 Avg Salary
$20,026 Avg Student Debt

Physical Sciences is the #16 most popular major in the country with 12,705 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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.

The Most Popular Online Physical Sciences Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 1 school in the Far Western US Region offering online 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 Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named University of Alaska Fairbanks the most popular online school in the Far Western US Region for physical sciences students. Located in the suburb of Fairbanks, UAF is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

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State Degrees Awarded
California 1,641
Washington 246
Oregon 215
Nevada 60
Hawaii 47
Alaska 31

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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

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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