Geology

Ranked in 2010, part of Earth Sciences

Geology graduate school programs include classroom-based courses as well as field work, which often means students will travel to locations around the world to study. These are the best earth sciences schools for geology.

Rank School name
#17 Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ

#6 California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

#15 Columbia University

Palisades, NY

#12 Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

#10 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

#7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

#3 Pennsylvania State University–​University Park

University Park, PA

#5 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

#1 University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

#9 University of California–​Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

#16 University of California–​Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

#12 University of California–​Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA

#1 University of Michigan–​Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

#12 University of Minnesota–​Twin Cities

Minneapolis, MN

#3 University of Texas–​Austin

Austin, TX

#10 University of Washington

Seattle, WA

#8 University of Wisconsin–​Madison

Madison, WI

#17 Yale University

New Haven, CT

Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings by Bob Morse
Updates to 2 Schools' 2013 Best Colleges Ranks

University of Mary Hardin–Baylor and York College of Pennsylvania are now in the ‘Unranked’ category.

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