2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Geographic Information Science in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 the New England region, there were 171 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 50 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 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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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in the New England Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Geographic Information Science in the New England Region

1

Unity College
New Gloucester, Maine

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Unity College landed the #1 spot on the list. New Gloucester, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s geographic information science degrees to 14 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Geographic Information Science at Unity

2

Clark University
Worcester, Massachusetts

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Clark University landed the #2 spot on the list. Clark University is a small school located in Worcester, Massachusetts that handed out 22 masters’s geographic information science degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Geographic Information Science at Clark

3

Salem State University
Salem, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Salem State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in the New England Region. Salem State University is a public institution located in Salem, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 14 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Geographic Information Science at Salem State University

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

Footnotes

• *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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