2025 Best Geology & Earth Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
3Colleges in the Far Western US Region
95Doctor's Degrees
Ranked #55 in popularity, geology & earth sciences is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for geology & earth sciences students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 95 doctor's degrees in geology & earth sciences during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Geology & Earth Sciences School for Your Doctor's Degree
The geology doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to geology & earth sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other geology & earth sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized geology & earth sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for geology & earth sciences students working on their doctor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Geology & Earth Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
The geology doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
