2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND METEOROLOGY DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

College students majoring in atmospheric sciences and meteorology are pretty unique. Each focus gives out roughly 6,156 yearly bachelor's degrees; 652 students last year completed undergraduate degrees in atmospheric sciences and meteorology, making it the USA's 251st most popular focus for college students. 36 of those degrees were awarded by a single college, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus, and 67 of those undergraduate students attended schools in New York.

79 schools coast-to-coast award undergraduate degrees in atmospheric sciences and meteorology; accordingly, it could possibly not be easy to rout out the right school. Four-year degrees in the typical major are offered at 2.4 times more colleges than degrees in atmospheric sciences and meteorology, making it the 206th most universally offered field in the nation.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While 62% of degrees in atmospheric sciences and meteorology last spring were undergrad degrees; 38% were postgraduate degrees. Atmospheric sciences and meteorology is the 197th most popular grad degree in the United States, with 392 degrees conferred. For some context, the average subject is 7.1 times more popular among postgrads than atmospheric sciences and meteorology.

In Total, 1,044 students received a bachelor's or higher in atmospheric sciences and meteorology last spring.

ONLINE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND METEOROLOGY DEGREES

Not a single atmospheric sciences and meteorology student completed a college degree or grad degree in an exclusively remote program last spring. No colleges in the country even have an online program. ### PARTIALLY ONLINE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND METEOROLOGY DEGREES

• Last May, 153 students received undergrad degrees in atmospheric sciences and meteorology partially online
• Atmospheric sciences and meteorology is the 175th most widely offered partially online undergraduate degree in the US
• Last spring, 189 students were awarded a bachelor's or higher in atmospheric sciences and meteorology partially online
• Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus​ awarded more partially online undergrad degrees in atmospheric sciences and meteorology than any other college in America (16)
• 9.18% of all advanced degrees in atmospheric sciences and meteorology are done partially online

IN-PERSON ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND METEOROLOGY DEGREES

• 499 students received undergrad degrees in atmospheric sciences and meteorology in-person last May
• Undergraduate degrees in atmospheric sciences and meteorology are offered in-person at 3 institutions nationwide
• Last spring, 855 people earned a bachelor's or higher in atmospheric sciences and meteorology totally in-person
• The University of Missouri-Columbia​ granted 24 exclusively in-person undergraduate degrees in atmospheric sciences and meteorology, more than any other American institution
• Last year, 356 students were conferred in-person advanced degrees in atmospheric sciences and meteorology
• On average, each discipline had around 4,293 entirely in-person undergrad degrees last spring