2023 Most Focused Colleges for Geoenvironmental Engineering
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools Highly Focused on Geoenvironmental Engineering Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Geoenvironmental Engineering is the 1435th most popular major in the country with 18 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Geoenvironmental Engineering Major” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in geoenvironmental engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in geoenvironmental engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools Highly Focused on Geoenvironmental Engineering Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for geoenvironmental engineering students.
Top 4 Most Focused Colleges for Geoenvironmental Engineering
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Geoenvironmental Engineering Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - San Diego landed the #1 spot on the list. La Jolla, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s geoenvironmental engineering degrees to 4 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of California - San Diego Geoenvironmental Engineering Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado School of Mines. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Geoenvironmental Engineering Major. Golden, Colorado is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s geoenvironmental engineering degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Geoenvironmental Engineering at Mines
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Geoenvironmental Engineering Major list. Illinois Institute of Technology is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 0 ’s geoenvironmental engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Illinois Institute of Technology Geoenvironmental Engineering Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia University in the City of New York. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Geoenvironmental Engineering Major. Columbia is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 0 ’s geoenvironmental engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 99%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read full report on Geoenvironmental Engineering at Columbia
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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
- *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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