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

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In 2020-2021, 8,526 people earned their degree in geography and cartography, making the major the 110th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, geography and cartography graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,604 and had an average of $22,522 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arkansas, there were 26 geography and cartography graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 geography and cartography graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,270 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geography Major in Arkansas” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in geography and cartography. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in geography and cartography.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geography Major in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geography Major in Arkansas”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Geography & Cartography in Arkansas

1

University of Central Arkansas
Conway, Arkansas

#7 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Arkansas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geography Major in Arkansas list. Conway, Arkansas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s geography degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Central Arkansas Geography & Cartography Report

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University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas

#1 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arkansas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geography Major in Arkansas. University of Arkansas is a large public school situated in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It awarded 5 masters’s geography degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Geography & Cartography at University of Arkansas

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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

• *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.

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