Geophysics and Seismology Earth Sciences

Ranked in 2010

Geophysicists study the unseen processes under the Earth's subsurface, sometimes using principles of seismology?the science of earthquakes?to analyze activity. These are the best earth sciences schools for geophysics and seismology.

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Specialty Geophysics and Seismology
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#1 California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

#2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

#3 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

#4 University of California--Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

#5 Columbia University

Palisades, NY

#6 University of Texas--Austin

Austin, TX

#7 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

#7 Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

#9 University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

#10 University of Washington

Seattle, WA

#11 University of California--Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, CA

#12 Pennsylvania State University--University Park

University Park, PA

#12 Rice University

Houston, TX

#14 Brown University

Providence, RI

#14 University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

#14 University of California--Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

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