2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region

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In 2020-2021, 243 people earned their degree in geophysics and seismology, making the major the 757th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 6 geophysics and seismology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 geophysics and seismology graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in geophysics and seismology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their geophysics and seismology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Geophysics & Seismology in the New England Region

1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#1 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s geophysics degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full MIT Geophysics & Seismology Report

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Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

#2 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region. Brown is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s geophysics degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Geophysics & Seismology at Brown University

• Most Focused Doctor’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

• *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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