Geography & Cartography is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #110 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Geography & Cartography Schools in Ohio ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 291 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. We derive our Best Overall Geography & Cartography School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Geography & Cartography Schools in Ohio ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of geography degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in geography & cartography has to take a look at Ohio State University - Main Campus. Ohio State is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Columbus. A Best Colleges rank of #70 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Ohio State is a great university overall.
There were about 68 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at Ohio State in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the geography program report average early career wages of $44,789.
Miami University - Oxford is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in geography & cartography. Miami University - Oxford is a fairly large public university located in the fringe town of Oxford. This university ranks 5th out of 91 colleges for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were approximately 50 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at Miami University - Oxford in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in geography & cartography needs to take a look at Kent State University at Kent. Kent State is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Kent. This university ranks 9th out of 91 schools for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were roughly 37 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at Kent State in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, geography degree recipients typically earn around $32,592 in the first five years of their career.
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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