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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 3,543 people earned their degree in geographic information science, making the major the 333rd most popular in the United States.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 346 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,302 and $25,698 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in geographic information science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their geographic information science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Pennsylvania”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus is located in Indiana, Pennsylvania and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s geographic information science degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Geographic Information Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus
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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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