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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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 384 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,470 and $126,402 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree geographic information science students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Toledo landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Toledo is located in Toledo, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s geographic information science degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Geographic Information Science at University of Toledo
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. This large school is located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s geographic information science degrees in 2021-2022.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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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