2024 Best Geography Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
25Master's Degrees
Geography is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #261 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for geography students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 25 master's degrees in geography during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Geography School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of geography for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality geography program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on geography students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other geography students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized geography related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for geography students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Geography Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Geography in the New England Region
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for geography students seeking a a master's degree.
Top New England Region Schools for a Master's in Geography
Clark University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in geography. Located in the medium-sized city of Worcester, Clark is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a master’s in geography from Clark University
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).