Best Geography and Environmental Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Geography and Environmental Studies Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Geography and Environmental Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of geography and environmental studies for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to geography and environmental studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of geography and environmental studies students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for geography and environmental studies to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized geography and environmental studies related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for geography and environmental studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

As a result of absent data, we could not provide you with the geography and environmental studies quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer geography and environmental studies and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Geography and Environmental Studies by Region

View the Best Geography and Environmental Studies Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Geography and Environmental Studies

Geography and Environmental Studies is one of 51 different types of Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies programs to choose from.

Geography and Environmental Studies Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Geography and Environmental Studies	52

Most Popular Majors Related to Geography and Environmental Studies

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	196
Nutrition Science	178
Behavioral Science	150
Computational Science	91
Biological & Physical Science	83
Cognitive Science	76
Interdisciplinary Studies	71
Sustainability Science	50
Systems Theory	41
Cultural Studies & Analysis	29

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.