2024 Best Geographic Information Science Schools in Virginia
2Colleges in Virginia
49Geographic Information Science Degrees Awarded
A degree in geographic information science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #333 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Virginia to determine which ones were the best for geographic information science students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 49 degrees in geographic information science to qualified students.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Geographic Information Science Schools in Virginia list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Geographic Information Science in Virginia
The schools below may not offer all types of geographic information science degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Virginia Schools in Geographic Information Science
George Mason University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in geographic information science. Located in the large suburb of Fairfax, GMU is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #117 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means GMU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 3 geographic information science students who graduated with this degree at GMU in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat University of Mary Washington if you want to pursue a degree in geographic information science. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Fredericksburg, UMW is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 21st out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were approximately 13 geographic information science students who graduated with this degree at UMW in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in geographic information science needs to take a look at Radford University. Located in the small suburb of Radford, Radford is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 23rd out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were about 8 geographic information science students who graduated with this degree at Radford in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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