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2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Geoscience Engineering in Colorado (With Aid)

1 Ranked Colleges
19 Degrees Awarded
$39,800 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools for a Master's in Colorado For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 418 people earned their degree in geoscience engineering, making the major the 285th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, geoscience engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,700 and had an average of $24,579 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 89 geoscience engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,700 and $22,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 geoscience engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,789 and $41,587 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great geoscience engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the geoscience engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Geoscience Engineering in Colorado (With Aid)

#1

Colorado School of Mines

Golden, Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado School of Mines. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid. Mines is located in Golden, Colorado and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 19 masters’s geoscience engineering degrees to qualified students.

Mines did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Geoscience Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Colorado School of Mines are $39,800, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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