2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 767 people earned their degree in other geological and earth sciences/geosciences, making the major the 502nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 30 other geological and earth sciences/geosciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 other geological and earth sciences/geosciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other geological and earth sciences/geosciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other geological and earth sciences/geosciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree other geological & earth sciences/geosciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences in the Great Lakes Region

1

Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Illinois State is a large school located in Normal, Illinois that handed out 4 masters’s other geological and earth sciences/geosciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

Read more about Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences at Illinois State

2

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, this fairly large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s other geological and earth sciences/geosciences students in 2020-2021.

Full Western Michigan University Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences

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.

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