2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Geography & Cartography in Tennessee

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Geography & Cartography is the 110th most popular major in the country with 8,526 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Tennessee, there were 45 geography and cartography graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,789 and $22,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 geography and cartography graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Geography Major in Tennessee for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in geography and cartography. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in geography and cartography.

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Most Well Attended Geography Major in Tennessee for a Master’s

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

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Geography & Cartography in Tennessee

1

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

#3 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Geography Major in Tennessee for a Master’s list. UT Knoxville is a large school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 5 masters’s geography degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Geography & Cartography at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

2

Tennessee State University
Nashville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tennessee State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Geography Major in Tennessee for a Master’s list. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s geography degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Full Tennessee State University Geography & Cartography Report

3

Christian Brothers University
Memphis, Tennessee

#25 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Christian Brothers University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Geography Major in Tennessee for a Master’s. Christian Brothers University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Memphis, Tennessee. It awarded 0 masters’s geography degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Geography & Cartography at Christian Brothers University

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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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