2025 Best Science Education Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
31Physical Science Education Degrees Awarded
A degree in science education is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #370 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for science education students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 31 degrees in science education annually.
Your choice of science education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Science Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Science Education Schools in Pennsylvania list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Science Education in Pennsylvania
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the physical science education degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Pennsylvania Schools in Physical Science Education
University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in science education. Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Pitt is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #85 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Pitt is a great university overall.More information about a degree in science education from University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
It is difficult to beat York College of Pennsylvania if you want to pursue a degree in science education. YCP is a small private not-for-profit college located in the midsize suburb of York. This college ranks 47th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.More information about a degree in science education from York College of Pennsylvania
Wilkes University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in science education. Wilkes is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Wilkes-Barre. This university ranks 44th out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.More information about a degree in science education from Wilkes University
Best Science Education Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).