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Social SciencesDegree program✓ Listed officially

Geography

at University of Victoria · Victoria, British Columbia · On the official programs page ↗

B-
Program score
Data transparencyStrong

How well this program's existence and the school's data are sourced. 67/100

Value scoreB

Quality adjusted for the school's cost. 70/100 · see how University of Victoria compares

How this program ranks

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Among Canadian universities offering Social Sciences, Geography at University of Victoria ranks #204 of 387 on our program score: verified school-wide outcomes (40%), recognized strength in Social Sciences (25%), data transparency (20%) and value (15%). Here's exactly how its 64/100 was reached:

How we calculated this 64/100: the real numbers64/100

Verified school-wide outcomes 40% · recognized strength in Social Sciences 25% · data transparency 20% · value 15%.

  1. Verified school-wide outcomes
    65/100: University of Victoria's verified outcome score, inherited (no fabricated per-program number)
    × 40% → 26 pts
    26 pts
  2. Recognised strength in Social Sciences
    55/100: Social Sciences is offered but not a flagged strength (floors at 55)
    × 25% → 14 pts
    14 pts
  3. Program data transparency
    67/100: this program's transparency score (below)
    × 20% → 13 pts
    13 pts
  4. Value
    70/100: quality adjusted for University of Victoria's cost
    × 15% → 11 pts
    11 pts
Program score64/100

We don't yet publish verified program-LEVEL outcomes, so this program inherits its school's verified figures, labelled as such: never a per-program number we can't source.

Compared with other Social Sciences programs

Transparency

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The one program-level signal we can verify today is whether this program is listed on University of Victoria's official programs page. The rest is University of Victoria's own data transparency, inherited and labelled; we don't yet have verified per-program stats.

Program listed on the school's official programs pageThis program
Existence confirmed on uvic.ca
source ↗1/1
Publishes student outcomesSchool-level
1 of 3 outcome metrics sourced
source ↗1/2
Keeps published data currentSchool-level
latest figure as of 2024
source ↗1/2
Sources its competitive entry averageSchool-level
publishes no admitted average. Our entering grade is an editorial estimate, not sourced
0/1
Backs facts with verified official linksSchool-level
2 verified source links
source ↗2/2
How we calculated this 67/100: the real numbers67/100

30% (listed on the school's official programs page) + 70% (the school's own data-transparency score).

  1. Program listed on an official pageThis program
    Yes: existence confirmed on the school's official programs page (1/1)
    × 30% → 30 pts
    30 pts

    Existence confirmed on uvic.ca

    Sourceofficial source ↗
  2. University of Victoria's data-transparency scoreSchool-level
    53/100: the school's own rubric (shown on its profile)
    × 70% → 37 pts
    37 pts
Program transparency67/100

The one genuinely program-level signal we can verify today is whether the program is listed officially. The rest is the school's transparency, inherited and labelled.

Outcomes (school-wide)

Compare on graduate employment

We don't yet publish program-level outcomes, so Geography inherits University of Victoria's verified school-wide figures. These are what feed its program score, never a per-program number we can't source.

Graduate employment
93%
How we calculated this 65/100: the real numbers65/100

Each verified outcome is scored 0-100 against the range its peers actually publish, then blended by weight and renormalised over the 1 of 3 metrics University of Victoria publishes.

  1. Graduate employment
    93%: graduate employment
    scaled within the 86-96.7% range across the 14 peers that publish it → 65/100, weighted 100%
    65 pts
    “Of UVic graduates in the labour force and not enrolled in further education, 93% are employed (2024 Survey of 2022 UVic Baccalaureate Graduates)”
    Extracted fromUniversity of Victoria Institutional Accountability Plan & Report 2024/25 (BC Ministry) ↗· as of 2024 (2022 grads)
Outcome score65/100

Scored on 1 of 3 outcome metrics: the rest aren't published with a verifiable source, so they're left out rather than estimated.

Program facts

Field
Social Sciences
Credential
Degree program
School
University of Victoria
Domestic tuition
$6,100/yr
Avg. entering grade
75-92%
Existence
uvic.ca ↗

Per-program stats are honestly Unverified until a program-level figure is sourced. Data as of June 2026.

Full school profile

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