2022 Best Value Geophysics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Geophysics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Geophysics & Seismology is the 674th most popular major in the country with 251 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 4 geophysics and seismology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 geophysics and seismology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality geophysics and seismology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the geophysics and seismology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Geophysics & Seismology Schools

The geophysics school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Geophysics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region”.

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Best Value Geophysics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree geophysics students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geophysics & Seismology in the Southeast Region

#1

University of South Carolina - Columbia

Columbia, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$20,509 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Geophysics Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. University of South Carolina - Columbia is a large public school situated in Columbia, South Carolina. It awarded 3 bachelors’s geophysics degrees in 2019-2020.

UofSC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Geophysics & Seismology Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $20,509 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Geophysics students per year to attend UofSC.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Geophysics & Seismology at UofSC

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geophysics & Seismology

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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