2025 Best Geography Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
2Colleges in the Far Western US Region
30Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in geography, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #93 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for geography students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 30 doctor's degrees in geography during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on geography students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of geography students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized geography related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for geography 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 Geography 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
