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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Geographic Information Science Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Geographic Information Science is the 333rd most popular major in the country with 3,231 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Illinois, there were 52 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Illinois” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in geographic information science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in geographic information science.
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The geographic information science 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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Illinois”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois bachelor’s degree geographic information science students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Illinois University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Illinois list. Western Illinois University is a medium-sized school located in Macomb, Illinois that handed out 5 bachelors’s geographic information science degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Geographic Information Science at WIU
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #2 spot on the list. Champaign, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s geographic information science degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full UIUC Geographic Information Science Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Illinois list. DePaul University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 0 bachelors’s geographic information science degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Geographic Information Science at DePaul
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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%.
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- *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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