2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences in the Southwest 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 Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 15 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 5 other geological and earth sciences/geosciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other geological and earth sciences/geosciences. That schools that top this list have a program in other geological and earth sciences/geosciences 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest 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 Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at San Antonio. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in San Antonio, Texas, and it awarded 4 masters’s other geological and earth sciences/geosciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full The University of Texas at San Antonio Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences Report

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University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Arizona is a large public school situated in Tucson, Arizona. It awarded 1 masters’s other geological and earth sciences/geosciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Other Geological & Earth Sciences/Geosciences at University of Arizona

• 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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