Highest Job Growth Doctoral Physical Sciences Programs

These are the highest job growth doctoral physical sciences programs, ranked by projected career job growth. The ranking includes 50 programs, with University of California-Berkeley leading at 10.1%.

Rank	Institution	State	Growth	Completers
1	University of California-Berkeley	CA	10.1%	66
2	University of Wisconsin-Madison	WI	10.1%	57
3	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	MI	10.1%	53
4	Purdue University-Main Campus	IN	10.1%	52
5	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	MN	10.1%	48
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	MA	10.1%	47
7	University of Florida	FL	10.1%	46
8	Ohio State University-Main Campus	OH	10.1%	46
9	University of California-Davis	CA	10.1%	44
10	Stanford University	CA	10.1%	44
11	Northwestern University	IL	10.1%	42
12	Texas A&M University-College Station	TX	10.1%	42
13	University of California-Irvine	CA	10.1%	41
14	California Institute of Technology	CA	10.1%	39
15	Yale University	CT	10.1%	39
16	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	NC	10.1%	39
17	University of California-San Diego	CA	10.1%	38
18	University of California-Los Angeles	CA	10.1%	37
19	Princeton University	NJ	10.1%	35
20	The University of Texas at Austin	TX	10.1%	34
21	Colorado State University-Fort Collins	CO	10.1%	33
22	Johns Hopkins University	MD	10.1%	33
23	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	WA	10.1%	32
24	University of Southern California	CA	10.1%	31
25	Florida State University	FL	10.1%	31
26	Harvard University	MA	10.1%	31
27	University of Chicago	IL	10.1%	29
28	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	IL	10.1%	29
29	Indiana University-Bloomington	IN	10.1%	29
30	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	PA	10.1%	29
31	University of Colorado Boulder	CO	10.1%	28
32	Emory University	GA	10.1%	28
33	University of Notre Dame	IN	10.1%	28
34	Iowa State University	IA	10.1%	28
35	Michigan State University	MI	10.1%	28
36	New York University	NY	10.1%	28
37	Brown University	RI	10.1%	28
38	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	GA	10.1%	27
39	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	PA	10.1%	27
40	University of South Carolina-Columbia	SC	10.1%	27
41	University of Pennsylvania	PA	10.1%	26
42	University of Utah	UT	10.1%	26
43	University of Connecticut	CT	10.1%	25
44	University of California-Riverside	CA	10.1%	24
45	University of California-Santa Barbara	CA	10.1%	24
46	Wayne State University	MI	10.1%	24
47	Duke University	NC	10.1%	24
48	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	TN	10.1%	24
49	University of Virginia-Main Campus	VA	10.1%	23
50	Arizona State University Campus Immersion	AZ	10.1%	22

Methodology

Programs ranked by average projected job growth rate across related occupations (via CIP-SOC crosswalk). Only includes doctoral programs with at least 10 completers and matched BLS occupation data. Data from the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook and College Scorecard.