2025 Best Geography & Cartography Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

If you plan on getting your master's degree in geography & cartography, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #111 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 6 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for geography & cartography students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 243 master's degrees in geography & cartography during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Geography & Cartography School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of geography & cartography for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality geography program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 & cartography students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other geography & cartography students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt geography & cartography students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized geography & cartography related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for geography & cartography students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Geography & Cartography Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Geography & Cartography Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Geography & Cartography in the Middle Atlantic Region

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for geography & cartography students seeking a a master's degree.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Geography

1

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

28 Annual Graduates

University of Pennsylvania is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in geography & cartography. UPenn is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a master’s in geography & cartography from University of Pennsylvania

2

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

17 Annual Graduates

$75,503 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in geography & cartography needs to look into Johns Hopkins University. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the geography program report average early career wages of $75,503.

More information about a master’s in geography & cartography from Johns Hopkins University

3

George Washington University
Washington, DC

14 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat George Washington University if you want to pursue a master's degree in geography & cartography. Located in the city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in geography & cartography from George Washington University

4

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

39 Annual Graduates

University of Maryland - College Park is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in geography & cartography. Located in the suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in geography & cartography from University of Maryland - College Park

5

University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

11 Annual Graduates

University at Buffalo is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Buffalo.More information about a master’s in geography & cartography from University at Buffalo

6

Salisbury University
Salisbury, MD

11 Annual Graduates

Salisbury is a medium-sized public university located in the suburb of Salisbury.More information about a master’s in geography & cartography from Salisbury University

Best Geography & Cartography Colleges by State

Explore the best geography & cartography schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	53
Pennsylvania	248	103
Maryland	193	54
New Jersey	188	3
District of Columbia	154	6
Delaware	109	1

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Geography & Cartography Related Rankings by Major

Geography & Cartography is one of 13 different types of Social Sciences programs to choose from.

Geography Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Geographic Information Science	137
Geography	56
Other Geography	50

Majors Similar to Geography

Related Major	Annual Graduates
International Relations & National Security	2,818
Economics	1,572
Political Science & Government	740
General Social Sciences	593
Sociology	247
Anthropology	241
Other Social Sciences	165
Urban Studies	141
Archeology	17
Demography & Population Studies	5

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Couleur. More about our data sources and methodologies.