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2023 Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$29,817 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$90,048 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Geoscience Engineering School for You

Geoscience Engineering is the #298 most popular major in the country with 325 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for geoscience engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Geoscience Engineering Colleges.

Best Rocky Mountains Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Geoscience Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named Montana Technological University the best value school in the Rocky Mountains Region for geoscience engineering students. Montana Tech is a small public school located in the town of Butte.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Montana Tech are $22,509 per year.

Montana Tech also claimed a spot on our Best Geoscience Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Geoscience Engineering at Montana Technological University

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Colorado School of Mines. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in the suburb of Golden, Mines is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

Mines undergraduate students pay an average of $40,838 in tuition and fees each year. While working on their degree, geoscience engineering majors at Mines accumulate an average of around $27,000 in student debt. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $885.

Mines not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Geoscience Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list.

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#3

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Utah is a great value for geoscience engineering students. U of U is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at U of U are $28,345 per year.

U of U excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Geoscience Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list.

Read full report on Geoscience Engineering at University of Utah

#4

University of Idaho

Moscow, ID
$27,576 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Idaho. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Geoscience Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. U of I is a large public school located in the distant town of Moscow.

U of I undergraduate students pay an average of $27,576 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Geoscience Engineering at University of Idaho Report

Best Geoscience Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best geoscience engineering colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 59
Utah 6
Idaho 1
Montana 8

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One of 40 majors within the area of study, geoscience engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Geoscience Engineering

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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