2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Natural Sciences

NATURAL SCIENCES DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

Not many college students decide to focus on natural sciences. The standard concentration hands out 6,156 yearly undergrad degrees; 852 students last spring received an undergraduate degree in natural sciences, making it the 227th most popular major coast-to-coast. 121 of those degrees were awarded at one college, Daemen College. 223 of those undergrad students came out of institutions from Puerto Rico.

It will potentially be difficult to root out the best college, due to the fact that undergraduate degrees in natural sciences are available at 84 schools in the USA. 56.2% fewer colleges offer bachelor's degrees in natural sciences than the typical course of study, making it the 192nd most broadly offered American degree.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While last year, a touch north of nine out of every ten degrees in natural sciences were undergraduate degrees; 9% were grad degrees. Natural sciences is the 313th most popular graduate degree in the country, with 87 degrees granted. For some context, natural sciences is 97% less popular among master's or doctor's students than the average subject.

In Total, 939 students received a bachelor's or higher in natural sciences last spring.

ONLINE NATURAL SCIENCES DEGREES

61 of those 939 alumni (6.5%) did all their learning fully remotely, and all 61 were undergraduate students. As you've probably gathered, college students majoring in natural sciences online are quite uncommon. It's at the moment the 146th most in-demand online field with 87.3% less remote students than the average subject.

Logan University​ conferred 38 online undergrad degrees, more than any other US institution. Last fall, 236 undergrad students were attending the school online, 92% of their student body. They offer 2 exclusively online subjects, which is 100% of their programs.

Moreover, Missouri graduates more natural sciences online students than any other state (38 undergraduate degrees granted last May). Missouri alone graduates 62% of America's online students.

Four-year degrees in natural sciences are offered totally remotely at 5 colleges in the United States, making it the 192nd most widely offered online U.S. subject. 6% of schools that have the degree even have an online option, and there are 2.8 private institutions conferring four-year degrees in natural sciences for each public college.

If you wish to study natural sciences online, you may want to apply to Excelsior College, as it has the 23rd best natural sciences program in the country. It also gives out an additional 100 degrees completely online, so their systems are likely dialed. Furthermore, they have 22,674 remote undergrad students, which is 100% of their total undergraduate population.

PARTIALLY ONLINE NATURAL SCIENCES DEGREES

• Natural sciences is the 249th most popular partially online undergraduate degree in the United States
• 69 colleges countrywide have bachelor's degrees in natural sciences partially online
• 15.49% of all four-year degree in natural sciences are done partially online
• Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Metro​ awarded more partially online bachelor's degrees in natural sciences than any other school in the United States (19)
• Natural sciences is the 281st most popular partially online master's or doctor's degree in the USA
• The average subject awards 320 postgrad degrees a year partially online

IN-PERSON NATURAL SCIENCES DEGREES

• 659 students received undergraduate degrees in natural sciences exclusively in-person last spring
• Natural sciences is the 160th most commonly offered fully in-person college degree across the nation
• Last May, 731 people received a bachelor's or higher in natural sciences in-person
• Harrisburg University of Science and Technology's​ last undergraduate class had the most dense population of in-person natural sciences majors in the US (25.49%)
• Puerto Rico graduates more natural sciences majors in-person than any other state (184 undergrad degrees awarded last year)
• 82.76% of all advanced degrees in natural sciences are earned in-person