2024 Best Geology & Earth Sciences Schools in Kentucky
3Colleges in Kentucky
43Geology Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in geology & earth sciences, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #125 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Geology & Earth Sciences Schools in Kentucky ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 43 degrees in geology & earth sciences to qualified students.
Your choice of geology & earth sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for geology & earth sciences schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The geology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Geology & Earth Sciences Schools in Kentucky.
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Best Schools for Geology & Earth Sciences in Kentucky
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the geology degree levels they offer.
Every student who is interested in geology & earth sciences needs to take a look at University of Kentucky. Located in the large city of Lexington, UK is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #230 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were approximately 9 geology & earth sciences students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent year we have data available.
Western Kentucky University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in geology & earth sciences. WKU is a large public university located in the small city of Bowling Green. This university ranks 7th out of 38 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 12 geology & earth sciences students who graduated with this degree at WKU in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Northern Kentucky University if you wish to pursue a degree in geology & earth sciences. Located in the suburb of Highland Heights, NKU is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #716 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means NKU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 4 geology & earth sciences students who graduated with this degree at NKU in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Eastern Kentucky University if you want to pursue a degree in geology & earth sciences. Located in the distant town of Richmond, Eastern is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 38 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 5 geology & earth sciences students who graduated with this degree at Eastern in the most recent data year.
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).
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