2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the Plains States Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Geophysics & Seismology is the 757th most popular major in the country with 243 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 5 geophysics and seismology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 geophysics and seismology graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in geophysics and seismology. That schools that top this list have a program in geophysics and seismology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geophysics & Seismology in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington University in St Louis. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the Plains States Region list. WUSTL is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s geophysics degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Geophysics & Seismology at WUSTL
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Louis University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s geophysics students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%.
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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
- *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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