2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Geophysics & Seismology in the Great Lakes Region

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Geophysics & Seismology is the 757th most popular major in the country with 238 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 22 geophysics & seismology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 geophysics & seismology graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in geophysics & seismology. That schools that top this list have a program in geophysics & seismology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree geophysics students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Geophysics & Seismology in the Great Lakes Region

1

Michigan Technological University
Houghton, Michigan

#22 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan Technological University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the Great Lakes Region. Michigan Technological University is a medium-sized public school situated in Houghton, Michigan. It awarded 4 masters’s geophysics 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Geophysics & Seismology at Michigan Technological University

2

University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#2 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Chicago. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the Great Lakes Region. This fairly large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 16 masters’s geophysics degrees 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%. 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 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full UChicago Geophysics & Seismology Report

3

University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Akron Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geophysics Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Akron Main Campus is located in Akron, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 masters’s geophysics degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%.

Read more about Geophysics & Seismology at University of Akron Main Campus

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

Footnotes

• *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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