You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in Illinois list. UChicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 17 ’s geophysics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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