2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geochemistry in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2020-2021, 49 people earned their degree in geochemistry, making the major the 1106th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 9 geochemistry graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 geochemistry graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geochemistry Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in geochemistry. That schools that top this list have a program in geochemistry in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geochemistry Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree geochemistry students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geochemistry in the Great Lakes Region

1

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Michigan University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geochemistry Major in the Great Lakes Region. This fairly large school is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s geochemistry degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Western Michigan University Geochemistry Report

2

Grand Valley State University
Allendale, Michigan

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grand Valley State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geochemistry Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Allendale, Michigan, this large public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s geochemistry students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full GVSU Geochemistry Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geochemistry

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.

Credits

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