2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geoscience Engineering in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Geoscience Engineering is the 304th most popular major in the country with 325 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, geoscience engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,772 and had an average of $25,238 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1 geoscience engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 geoscience engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in geoscience engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in geoscience engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geoscience Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s geoscience engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full The University of Texas at Austin Geoscience Engineering Report

2

New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 0 bachelors’s geoscience engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Full New Mexico State University - Main Campus Geoscience Engineering Report

2

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
Norman, Oklahoma

#20 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Norman, Oklahoma, this large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s geoscience engineering students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Geoscience Engineering at University of Oklahoma Norman Campus

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geoscience Engineering

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.