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2023 Most Popular Geoscience Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

4 Colleges
$90,048 Avg Salary
$27,000 Avg Student Debt

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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Most Popular Geoscience Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which ones were the most popular programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Geoscience Engineering program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Geoscience Engineering Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Colorado School of Mines the most popular school in the Rocky Mountains Region for geoscience engineering students. Located in the suburb of Golden, Mines is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

The average amount in student loans that geoscience engineering majors at Mines take out is $27,000. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $885.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana Technological University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Geoscience Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Montana Tech is a small public school located in the remote town of Butte.

Full Geoscience Engineering at Montana Technological University Report

#3

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

The excellent programs at University of Utah helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best geoscience engineering schools in the Rocky Mountains Region . U of U is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Salt Lake City.

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#4

University of Idaho

Moscow, ID

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Idaho. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Popular Geoscience Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. U of I is a fairly large public school located in the town of Moscow.

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Best Geoscience Engineering Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 59
Utah 6
Idaho 1
Montana 8

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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