2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Earth Systems Science
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Earth Systems Science Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Earth Systems Science is the 353rd most popular major in the country with 21 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 earth systems science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,724 and $23,030 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Earth Systems Science Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in earth systems science. That schools that top this list have a program in earth systems science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Earth Systems Science Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree earth systems science students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Earth Systems Science
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Earth Systems Science Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Georgia Tech is a public institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Earth Systems Science at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Earth Systems Science Major list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s earth systems science degrees to 15 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Earth Systems Science at Arizona State University - Tempe
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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
- *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.
