2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography in Montana

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 5,476 people earned their degree in geography, making the major the 144th most popular in the United States.

Across Montana, there were 12 geography graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 geography graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,286 and $23,603 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality geography programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the geography program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography in Montana

#1

The University of Montana

Missoula, Montana

#1 in overall quality

$15,246 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Montana landed the #1 spot on the list. UM is a medium-sized school located in Missoula, Montana that handed out 9 bachelors’s geography degrees in 2019-2020.

UM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Geography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Montana” list. The yearly cost to attend UM is $15,246 for Montana Bachelor’s Degree Geography students.

Read more about Geography at The University of Montana

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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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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