2025 Best Geography Doctor's Degree Schools in California
2Colleges in California
29Doctor's Degrees
Geography is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #93 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Geography Doctor's Degree Schools in California ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 29 doctor's degrees in geography during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 geography students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other geography 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 geography related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for geography students working on their doctor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Geography Doctor's Degree Schools in California list to help you make the college 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
