2024 Best Geology & Earth Sciences Schools in Arizona
3Colleges in Arizona
95Geology Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in geology & earth sciences, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #125 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Arizona to determine which ones were the best for geology & earth sciences students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 95 degrees in geology & earth sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The geology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Geology & Earth Sciences rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for geology & earth sciences schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Schools in Arizona list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Geology & Earth Sciences in Arizona
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the geology degree levels they offer.
University of Arizona is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in geology & earth sciences. Located in the large city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 26 schools for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were roughly 48 geology & earth sciences students who graduated with this degree at University of Arizona in the most recent data year.
Arizona State University - Tempe is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in geology & earth sciences. ASU - Tempe is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Tempe. A Best Colleges rank of #119 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means ASU - Tempe is a great university overall.
There were roughly 19 geology & earth sciences students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Tempe in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat Northern Arizona University if you want to pursue a degree in geology & earth sciences. Located in the small city of Flagstaff, NAU is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 5th out of 26 schools for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were about 26 geology & earth sciences students who graduated with this degree at NAU in the most recent data year.
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).
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The geology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Geology & Earth Sciences rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for geology & earth sciences schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
