58
Colleges in the United States
601
Master's Degrees
a master's degree in
geographic information science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #210 out of 1172 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 58 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Geographic Information Science Master's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 601 master's degrees in geographic information science to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Your choice of geographic information science for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on geographic information science students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other geographic information science students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized geographic information science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for geographic information science students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Geographic Information Science Master's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.