Geography is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #159 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of geography. Combined, these schools handed out 54 degrees in geography to qualified students.
The geography program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Geography rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for geography schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The geography 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 the Best Geography Schools in New Jersey.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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The schools below may not offer all types of geography degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Rowan University is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a degree in geography. Located in the large suburb of Glassboro, Rowan is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 44 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were roughly 26 geography students who graduated with this degree at Rowan in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in geography has to check out Rutgers University - New Brunswick. Rutgers New Brunswick is a fairly large public university located in the small city of New Brunswick. A Best Colleges rank of #98 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Rutgers New Brunswick is a great university overall.
There were about 22 geography students who graduated with this degree at Rutgers New Brunswick in the most recent data year.
Montclair State University is a good decision for students interested in a degree in geography. Montclair State is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Montclair. This university ranks 8th out of 44 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were about 5 geography students who graduated with this degree at Montclair State in the most recent year we have data available.
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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The geography program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Geography rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for geography schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
