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Massachusetts Physicists: Schools and Careers

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Massachusetts Physics Schools

School NameCampusHighest AwardEnrolled
Amherst CollegeAmherstBachelor1,683
Bard College at Simon's RockGreat BarringtonBachelor403
Boston CollegeChestnut HillDoctorate & First Professional14,621
Boston UniversityBostonDoctorate & First Professional32,053
Brandeis UniversityWalthamDoctorate5,333
Bridgewater State CollegeBridgewaterMasters9,934
Clark UniversityWorcesterDoctorate3,210
College of the Holy CrossWorcesterBachelor2,847
Eastern Nazarene CollegeQuincyMasters1,075
Gordon College WenhamWenhamMasters1,648
Harvard UniversityCambridgeDoctorate25,690
Massachusetts College of Liberal ArtsNorth AdamsMasters1,841
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridgeDoctorate10,220
Mount Holyoke CollegeSouth HadleyMasters2,204
Northeastern UniversityBostonDoctorate & First Professional24,434
Simmons CollegeBostonDoctorate4,733
Smith CollegeNorthamptonDoctorate3,065
Suffolk UniversityBostonDoctorate9,103
Tufts UniversityMedfordDoctorate & First Professional9,758
University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherstDoctorate25,873
University of Massachusetts-BostonBostonDoctorate13,433
University of Massachusetts-DartmouthNorth DartmouthDoctorate9,080
University of Massachusetts-LowellLowellDoctorate11,635
Wellesley CollegeWellesleyBachelor2,380
Wheaton College NortonNortonBachelor1,657
Williams CollegeWilliamstownMasters2,073
Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWorcesterDoctorate4,158

Job Popularity in Metro Areas for Physicists

The map below shows job statistics for the career type by metro area, for Massachusetts. A table below the map shows job popularity and salaries across the state.

Metro Areas Rated for Popularity (as of 2008) for:
Physicists

Listed below are metro areas ranked by the popularity of jobs for Physicists relative to the population of the city, as of 2008. Salary data was obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A Relative Popularity of 1.0 means that the city has an average number of the particular job, for its population, compared to the rest of the US. Higher numbers mean proportionally more jobs of that type.
Metro AreaJobsSalary
(2008)
Relative
Popularity

MASSACHUSETTS

   
Boston340$113,3002.4
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