2023 Most Well Attended Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in geoscience engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful geoscience engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region geoscience engineering students.

Top 3 Most Popular Colleges for Geoscience Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

$53,632 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,734 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 1 ’s geoscience engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full The University of Texas at Austin Geoscience Engineering Report

2

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

$36,973 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,260 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended 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. Las Cruces, New Mexico is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s geoscience engineering degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Full NMSU Main Campus Geoscience Engineering Report

2

University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
Norman, Oklahoma

#20 overall quality in Southwest

$50,499 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,442 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Geoscience Engineering Major in the Southwest Region. Norman, Oklahoma is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s geoscience engineering degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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

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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

• *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.