2024 Best Geology & Earth Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
46Master's Degrees
Geology & Earth Sciences is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #131 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of geology & earth sciences. Combined, these schools handed out 46 master's degrees in geology & earth sciences to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Geology & Earth Sciences School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of geology & earth sciences for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to geology & earth sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of geology & earth sciences students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized geology & earth sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for geology & earth sciences students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Geology & Earth Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).