2025 Best Geology & Earth Sciences Schools in Wisconsin
3Colleges in Wisconsin
139Geology Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in geology & earth sciences, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #125 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Wisconsin to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of geology & earth sciences. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 139 degrees in geology & earth sciences annually.
Your choice of geology & earth sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for geology & earth sciences schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Geology & Earth Sciences Schools in Wisconsin list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Geology & Earth Sciences in Wisconsin
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the geology degree levels they offer.
University of Wisconsin - Madison is a good option for students pursuing a degree in geology & earth sciences. UW - Madison is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Madison. A Best Colleges rank of #40 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UW - Madison is a great university overall.
There were roughly 42 geology & earth sciences students who graduated with this degree at UW - Madison in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire if you wish to pursue a degree in geology & earth sciences. UW - Eau Claire is a medium-sized public university located in the small city of Eau Claire. This university ranks 13th out of 46 schools for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were roughly 31 geology & earth sciences students who graduated with this degree at UW - Eau Claire in the most recent year we have data available.
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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in geology & earth sciences. UWM is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Milwaukee. This university ranks 23rd out of 46 colleges for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were roughly 22 geology & earth sciences students who graduated with this degree at UWM in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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