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	University of Utah	70	1%	$24,472
14	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	70	1%	$26,834
15	University of Maryland-College Park	66	1%	$27,146
16	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	66	1%	$27,898
17	Yale University	64	2%	$73,900
18	University of California-Santa Cruz	64	1%	$36,217
19	Stony Brook University	64	1%	$26,091
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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	56	2%	$70,240
27	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	56	0%	$36,652
28	Brown University	55	2%	$73,802
29	Columbia University in the City of New York	54	0%	$76,856
30	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	52	1%	$30,913
31	University of California-Davis	52	1%	$35,177
32	University of Florida	51	0%	$21,211
33	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	50	1%	$28,776
34	University of Pennsylvania	50	1%	$74,408
35	University of South Florida-Main Campus	50	0%	$23,320
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	University of Rochester	44	1%	$72,721
41	Oregon State University	44	1%	$26,892
42	University of California-Irvine	43	0%	$34,261
43	University of California-San Diego	43	0%	$32,838
44	Princeton University	43	2%	$70,900
45	California Institute of Technology	43	11%	$72,084
46	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	42	1%	$28,302
47	Florida State University	41	0%	$22,168
48	New York University	41	0%	$73,566
49	College of William and Mary	41	2%	$39,221
50	University of Oregon	39	1%	$27,366
51	Texas Tech University	39	0%	$24,472
52	University of California-Riverside	39	1%	$35,242
53	Purdue University-Main Campus	39	0%	$22,822
54	University of Houston	39	0%	$23,225
55	University of Notre Dame	39	1%	$71,801
56	Carnegie Mellon University	39	1%	$72,283
57	Chaffey College	38	1%	$3,089
58	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	38	0%	$23,977
59	Rowan University	38	1%	$32,099
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-Northridge	32	0%	$22,969
68	Cabrillo College	32	2%	$3,016
69	California State University-Long Beach	32	0%	$24,738
70	Grossmont College	32	1%	$3,086
71	Brigham Young University-Provo	31	0%	$18,776
72	Washington University in St Louis	31	1%	$74,361
73	Stanford University	31	1%	$71,587
74	University of Arizona	31	0%	$29,217
75	Texas A & M University-College Station	31	0%	$29,506
76	Montana State University	31	1%	$22,453
77	Boston University	30	0%	$72,618
78	The University of Texas at El Paso	30	1%	$23,843
79	Florida International University	30	0%	$23,506
80	Saddleback College	30	1%	$3,246
81	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	30	0%	$23,811
82	Salisbury University	30	1%	$25,774
83	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	29	1%	$24,936
84	University at Buffalo	29	0%	$27,758
85	Irvine Valley College	29	1%	$3,059
86	The University of Texas at Dallas	29	0%	$29,286
87	University of Virginia-Main Campus	29	0%	$33,493
88	Santa Barbara City College	29	1%	$3,054
89	Georgia State University	28	0%	$26,014
90	SUNY at Albany	28	1%	$26,734
91	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	28	0%	$33,503
92	Arizona Western College	28	1%	$17,379
93	University of Wisconsin-River Falls	28	2%	$17,937
94	Georgia College & State University	27	2%	$28,536
95	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	27	1%	$17,514
96	University of Maryland-Baltimore County	27	1%	$28,058
97	Antelope Valley College	26	1%	$2,099
98	The University of Texas at Arlington	26	0%	$26,660
99	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College	26	0%	$30,360
100	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	26	1%	$71,998

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.