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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Massachusetts” 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 Massachusetts, there were 55 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 36 geographic information science graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,127 and $43,515 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Massachusetts” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Massachusetts”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Clark University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 22 degrees to qualified masters’s geographic information science students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Clark University Geographic Information Science Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Salem State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geographic Information Science Major in Massachusetts list. Salem, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public 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 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Geographic Information Science at Salem State University
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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%.
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- *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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