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2023 Most Popular Online Geological & Earth Sciences Schools in the Great Lakes Region

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$35,990 Avg Salary
$23,096 Avg Student Debt

Geological & Earth Sciences is the #96 most popular major in the country with 7,821 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Most Popular Online Geological & Earth Sciences Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 1 school in the Great Lakes Region offering online programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following school tops our list of the Most Popular Online Geological & Earth Sciences Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Western Michigan University the most popular online school in the Great Lakes Region for geological and earth sciences students. WMU is a large public school located in the city of Kalamazoo.

On average, geology graduates from WMU take out $27,033 in student loans while working on their degree.

Full Geological & Earth Sciences at Western Michigan University Report

Explore the most popular online geological and earth sciences colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 211
Ohio 237
Illinois 140
Indiana 98
Wisconsin 130

More Geological & Earth Sciences Rankings in the Great Lakes Region

One of 8 majors within the area of study, geological and earth sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Chemistry 21,239
Physics 13,674
General Physical Sciences 3,823
Astronomy & Astrophysics 1,375
Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology 1,140

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Kelvinsong.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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