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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Washington” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Geographic Information Science is the 333rd most popular major in the country with 3,543 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Washington, there were 175 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,094 and $46,975 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Washington” 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.
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 Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Washington” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for washington master’s degree geographic information science students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Tacoma Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Washington. UW Tacoma is a small school located in Tacoma, Washington that handed out 13 masters’s geographic information science degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Washington. This large school is located in Seattle, Washington, and it awarded 126 masters’s geographic information science degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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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