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 looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Geography Schools in Utah ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 69 degrees in geography to qualified students.
Your choice of geography school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. 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.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Utah.
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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.
Brigham Young University - Provo is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in geography. Located in the medium-sized city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #100 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means BYU is a great university overall.
There were about 16 geography students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in geography has to take a look at Utah State University. USU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Logan. This university ranks 5th out of 13 schools for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were about 7 geography students who graduated with this degree at USU in the most recent data year.
Weber State University is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in geography. Located in the small city of Ogden, WSU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 13 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were roughly 17 geography students who graduated with this degree at WSU 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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Your choice of geography school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. 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.
