Best Geological & Earth Sciences Master’s Degree Colleges in Illinois

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Illinois that made our Best Geological & Earth Sciences Master's Degree Schools in Illinois list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Geological & Earth Sciences School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of geological & earth sciences for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality geology program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to geological & earth sciences students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of geological & earth sciences students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for geological & earth sciences to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized geological & earth sciences related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for geological & earth sciences students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for Illinois

Sad to say, we don't have sufficient data to create a ranking of the top quality schools for geological & earth sciences in Illinois. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in Illinois that both offer geological & earth sciences and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Instead, look at at some of our other Geological & Earth Sciences rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Geological & Earth Sciences ranking.

Best Geological & Earth Sciences Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Geological & Earth Sciences Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	211	29
Ohio	207	50
Indiana	191	25
Wisconsin	173	12

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Rankings in Majors Related to Geology

Geological & Earth Sciences is one of 8 different types of Physical Sciences programs to choose from.

Geology Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Geology & Earth Sciences	22
Hydrology & Water Resources Science	9

Majors Similar to Geology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Chemistry	188
Physics	72
General Physical Sciences	23
Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology	7
Astronomy & Astrophysics	1
Materials Sciences	1

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Kelvinsong. More about our data sources and methodologies.