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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Geographic Information Science is the 333rd most popular major in the country with 3,543 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Virginia, there were 36 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,755 and $24,761 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in geographic information science. That schools that top this list have a program in geographic information science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Virginia” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia bachelor’s degree geographic information science students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Radford University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Radford, Virginia, this medium-sized public school handed out 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s geographic information science students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Geographic Information Science at Radford University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Old Dominion University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Virginia list. Old Dominion is located in Norfolk, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s geographic information science degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.
Full Old Dominion Geographic Information Science Report
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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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