2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region
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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 for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Geophysics & Seismology is the 757th most popular major in the country with 238 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 13 geophysics & seismology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 geophysics & seismology graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in geophysics & seismology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in geophysics & seismology.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geophysics & Seismology in the New England Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s geophysics students in 2021-2022.
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. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%.
Read more about Geophysics & Seismology at Brown
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the New England Region list. Boston U is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. 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 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Geophysics & Seismology at Boston University
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.
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