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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 “Most Well Attended Geographic Information Science Major in Utah for a Bachelor’s” 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 Utah, there were 112 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 40 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,652 and $24,483 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Geographic Information Science Major in Utah for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in geographic information science. To top this list, a school must have a successful geographic information science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for utah bachelor’s degree geographic information science students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Geographic Information Science Major in Utah for a Bachelor’s list. University of Utah is a public institution located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The school has a large population, and it awarded 29 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full U of U Geographic Information Science Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brigham Young University - Provo. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Geographic Information Science Major in Utah for a Bachelor’s. BYU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Provo, Utah. The school has a large population, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.
Read more about Geographic Information Science at BYU
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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%.
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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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