2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Earth Systems Science

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Earth Systems Science Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 44 people earned their degree in earth systems science, making the major the 353rd most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 earth systems science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Earth Systems Science Major for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in earth systems science. To top this list, a school must have a successful earth systems science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Earth Systems Science Major for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Earth Systems Science Major for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Earth Systems Science

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Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

Top 10% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Earth Systems Science Major for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school awarded 19 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s earth systems science students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Earth Systems Science at ASU - Tempe

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Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Atlanta, Georgia

Top 5% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Earth Systems Science Major for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this large public school awarded 12 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s earth systems science students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Earth Systems Science at Georgia Tech

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.