Geography is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #159 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Ohio to determine which ones were the best for geography students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 157 degrees in geography annually.
The geography program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Geography rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for geography 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 Schools in Ohio.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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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.
Ohio State University - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in geography. Ohio State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Columbus. A Best Colleges rank of #70 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Ohio State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 37 geography students who graduated with this degree at Ohio State in the most recent year we have data available.
Miami University - Oxford is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in geography. Miami University - Oxford is a large public university located in the fringe town of Oxford. This university ranks 5th out of 91 schools for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were about 43 geography students who graduated with this degree at Miami University - Oxford in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in geography needs to take a look at Kent State University at Kent. Kent State is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Kent. This university ranks 9th out of 91 schools for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were about 18 geography students who graduated with this degree at Kent State in the most recent data year.
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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The geography program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Geography rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for geography schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
