2025 Best Geography & Cartography Schools in Maryland
4Colleges in Maryland
202Geography 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Maryland to determine which ones were the best for geography & cartography students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 202 degrees in geography & cartography to qualified students.
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 & Cartography rankings. 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.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Maryland ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Geography & Cartography in Maryland
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.
Johns Hopkins University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in geography & cartography. Located in the city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #6 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Johns Hopkins is a great university overall.
There were about 23 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at Johns Hopkins in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the geography & cartography major at Johns Hopkins University get $32,468 more than the average college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
University of Maryland - College Park is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in geography & cartography. Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #37 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UMCP is a great university overall.
There were about 84 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at UMCP in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the geography program report average early career earnings of $40,913.
Any student pursuing a degree in geography & cartography needs to look into Towson University. Towson is a fairly large public university located in the city of Towson. This university ranks 5th out of 35 schools for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were roughly 33 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at Towson in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in geography & cartography has to look into Salisbury University. Salisbury is a medium-sized public university located in the suburb of Salisbury. This university ranks 12th out of 35 schools for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were about 25 geography & cartography students who graduated with this degree at Salisbury in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the geography program report average early career wages of $25,255.
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 & Cartography rankings. 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.
