Biological & Physical Sciences
Stem Major
Add ComparisonIn 2022, the locations with the highest concentration of Biological & Physical Sciences degree recipients are Los Angeles, CA, Pasadena, CA, and Austin, TX. In 2022, the locations with a relatively high number of Biological & Physical Sciences degree recipients are San Pablo, CA, San Jacinto, CA, and Pittsburg, CA. The most common degree awarded to students studying Biological & Physical Sciences is a associates degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Biological & Physical Sciences and the types of students that study this field. Pasadena City College awards the most degrees in Biological & Physical Sciences in the US, but Keck Graduate Institute and New College of Florida have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Biological & Physical Sciences.
Tuition costs for Biological & Physical Sciences majors are, on average, $7,716 for in-state public colleges, and $38,370 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Biological & Physical Sciences programs are Public, 2-year institutions (168 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 2-year (22,679 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Biological & Physical Sciences, is Public, 2-year (22,679 completions in 2022).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Biological & Physical Sciences programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Pasadena City College has the most Biological & Physical Sciences degree recipients, with 962 degrees awarded in 2022.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Biological & Physical Sciences.
Out of all institutions that offer Biological & Physical Sciences programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Keck Graduate Institute has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Biological & Physical Sciences, with 52.7%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Biological & Physical Sciences by year.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in the United States.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a Associates Degree. Female employees are more likely to hold Interdisciplinary Studies degrees, and Hispanic or Latino students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies (11,057 students).
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Biological & Physical Sciences are Associates Degree, Bachelors Degree, and Certificate of at least 1 but less than 2 academic years.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Interdisciplinary Studies are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Biological & Physical Sciences.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Biological & Physical Sciences for each race & ethnicity. Hispanic or Latino students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of N/A recipients in Biological & Physical Sciences.
N/A students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Latvia that hold Interdisciplinary Studies degrees (4.18 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is India (25,807 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Biological & Physical Sciences field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Biological & Physical Sciences majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Biological & Physical Sciences majors need more than the average amount of Management of Material Resources, Management of Financial Resources, and Technology Design.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Biological & Physical Sciences majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Management of Material Resources is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Writing, and Active Listening are the three most important skills for people in the field.
