2025 Best Geography & Cartography Schools in Colorado
4Colleges in Colorado
430Geography Degrees Awarded
$43,035Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in geography & cartography, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #110 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Geography & Cartography Schools in Colorado ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 430 degrees in geography & cartography annually.
Your choice of geography & cartography school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for geography & cartography schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The geography school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Geography & Cartography Schools in Colorado.
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Best Schools for Geography & Cartography in Colorado
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the geography degree levels they offer.
It is difficult to beat University of Denver if you want to pursue a degree in geography & cartography. Located in the city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #174 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means DU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 104 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at DU in the most recent data year. Geography & Cartography degree recipients from University of Denver earn a boost of about $15,774 over the average earnings of geography & cartography majors.
Colorado State University - Fort Collins is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in geography & cartography. Colorado State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Fort Collins. A Best Colleges rank of #178 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Colorado State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 10 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus if you want to pursue a degree in geography & cartography. Located in the city of Denver, CU Anschutz is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 14th out of 31 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were approximately 47 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at CU Anschutz in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the geography program state that they receive average early career earnings of $39,104.
Any student who is interested in geography & cartography has to check out University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Located in the large city of Colorado Springs, UCCS is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 21st out of 31 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 51 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at UCCS in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the geography program report average early career income of $36,426.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of geography & cartography school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for geography & cartography schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
