2025 Best Geography & Cartography Schools in Oregon
3Colleges in Oregon
316Geography Degrees Awarded
$43,035Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in geography & cartography is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #110 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Geography & Cartography Schools in Oregon ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 316 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. For our Best Overall Geography & Cartography School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that 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 Oregon.
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Best Schools for Geography & Cartography in Oregon
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the geography degrees they offer, see the list below.
Oregon State University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in geography & cartography. Oregon State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Corvallis. This university ranks 2nd out of 29 colleges for overall quality in the state of Oregon.
There were roughly 136 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at Oregon State in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat University of Oregon if you want to pursue a degree in geography & cartography. UO is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Eugene. A Best Colleges rank of #167 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UO is a great university overall.
There were roughly 59 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at UO in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, geography degree recipients usually make around $45,030 in their early careers.
Any student pursuing a degree in geography & cartography needs to look into Portland State University. Portland State University is a very large public university located in the city of Portland. This university ranks 5th out of 29 schools for overall quality in the state of Oregon.
There were roughly 55 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at Portland State University in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, geography degree recipients usually earn about $35,330 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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Your choice of geography & cartography school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Geography & Cartography School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
