2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geography Major

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geography Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 341 people earned their degree in geography, making the major the 764th most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 61 geography graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geography Major” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in geography. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in geography.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geography Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree other geography students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Geography

1

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geography Major list. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s geography degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.

Read more about Other Geography at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

2

Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Top 15% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Temple University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geography Major list. Temple University is a large public school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 2 masters’s geography degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, 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 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Temple University Other Geography Report

3

University of North Alabama
Florence, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Alabama. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Geography Major list. Florence, Alabama is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s geography degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Other Geography at UNA

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.

Credits

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