Most Popular Schools for General Physics Major & Degree Program

A general program that focuses on the scientific study of matter and energy, and the formulation and testing of the laws governing the behavior of the matter-energy continuum. Includes instruction in classical and modern physics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, mechanics, wave properties, nuclear processes, relativity and quantum theory, quantitative methods, and laboratory methods.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	188	2%	$27,638
2	University of California-Santa Barbara	148	2%	$36,659
3	University of California-Berkeley	121	1%	$38,066
4	The University of Texas at Austin	97	1%	$26,506
5	University of California-Los Angeles	95	1%	$34,620
6	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	95	1%	$30,102
7	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	88	1%	$30,298
8	Ohio State University-Main Campus	77	1%	$27,367
9	University of Wisconsin-Madison	76	1%	$26,025
10	University of Colorado Boulder	73	1%	$31,044
11	University of Chicago	72	2%	$78,555
12	College of the Canyons	71	2%	$3,073
13	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	70	1%	$26,834
14	University of Utah	70	1%	$24,472
15	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	66	1%	$27,898
16	University of Maryland-College Park	66	1%	$27,146
17	Stony Brook University	64	1%	$26,091
18	University of California-Santa Cruz	64	1%	$36,217
19	Yale University	64	2%	$73,900
20	Arizona State University-Tempe	61	0%	$28,048
21	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	61	1%	$32,443
22	Michigan State University	60	1%	$28,862
23	Cornell University	59	1%	$73,904
24	Ohlone College	58	4%	$3,136
25	Harvard University	57	1%	$71,650
26	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	56	0%	$36,652
27	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	56	2%	$70,240
28	Brown University	55	2%	$73,802
29	Columbia University in the City of New York	54	0%	$76,856
30	University of California-Davis	52	1%	$35,177
31	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	52	1%	$30,913
32	University of Florida	51	0%	$21,211
33	University of South Florida-Main Campus	50	0%	$23,320
34	University of Pennsylvania	50	1%	$74,408
35	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	50	1%	$28,776
36	Moorpark College	49	1%	$3,179
37	Appalachian State University	48	1%	$19,194
38	Pasadena City College	48	1%	$3,084
39	El Camino Community College District	46	1%	$3,064
40	Oregon State University	44	1%	$26,892
41	University of Rochester	44	1%	$72,721
42	University of California-San Diego	43	0%	$32,838
43	University of California-Irvine	43	0%	$34,261
44	California Institute of Technology	43	11%	$72,084
45	Princeton University	43	2%	$70,900
46	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	42	1%	$28,302
47	Florida State University	41	0%	$22,168
48	College of William and Mary	41	2%	$39,221
49	New York University	41	0%	$73,566
50	University of Houston	39	0%	$23,225
51	Purdue University-Main Campus	39	0%	$22,822
52	University of California-Riverside	39	1%	$35,242
53	University of Notre Dame	39	1%	$71,801
54	Texas Tech University	39	0%	$24,472
55	University of Oregon	39	1%	$27,366
56	Carnegie Mellon University	39	1%	$72,283
57	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	38	0%	$23,977
58	Rowan University	38	1%	$32,099
59	Chaffey College	38	1%	$3,089
60	Rice University	37	2%	$65,150
61	Indiana University-Bloomington	37	0%	$24,779
62	University of Central Florida	36	0%	$22,548
63	Dartmouth College	35	2%	$74,359
64	California State Polytechnic University-Pomona	35	1%	$28,891
65	Santa Ana College	35	0%	$3,076
66	SUNY College at Geneseo	34	3%	$25,761
67	California State University-Long Beach	32	0%	$24,738
68	California State University-Northridge	32	0%	$22,969
69	Cabrillo College	32	2%	$3,016
70	Grossmont College	32	1%	$3,086
71	Montana State University	31	1%	$22,453
72	Washington University in St Louis	31	1%	$74,361
73	Texas A & M University-College Station	31	0%	$29,506
74	Brigham Young University-Provo	31	0%	$18,776
75	University of Arizona	31	0%	$29,217
76	Stanford University	31	1%	$71,587
77	Boston University	30	0%	$72,618
78	Salisbury University	30	1%	$25,774
79	Saddleback College	30	1%	$3,246
80	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	30	0%	$23,811
81	Florida International University	30	0%	$23,506
82	The University of Texas at El Paso	30	1%	$23,843
83	University at Buffalo	29	0%	$27,758
84	Irvine Valley College	29	1%	$3,059
85	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	29	1%	$24,936
86	University of Virginia-Main Campus	29	0%	$33,493
87	Santa Barbara City College	29	1%	$3,054
88	The University of Texas at Dallas	29	0%	$29,286
89	Georgia State University	28	0%	$26,014
90	SUNY at Albany	28	1%	$26,734
91	Arizona Western College	28	1%	$17,379
92	University of Wisconsin-River Falls	28	2%	$17,937
93	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	28	0%	$33,503
94	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	27	1%	$17,514
95	University of Maryland-Baltimore County	27	1%	$28,058
96	Georgia College & State University	27	2%	$28,536
97	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College	26	0%	$30,360
98	University of Connecticut	26	0%	$32,404
99	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	26	1%	$71,998
100	Antelope Valley College	26	1%	$2,099

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Physics, General program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.