<p>college, SAT 75th percentile, total bachelors graduates, number of geology graduates, proportion of geology graduates</p>
<p>IPEDS</p>
<p>sorted by the NUMBER of geology graduates</p>
<p>St Lawrence University 1250 434 15 0.0346
Colgate University 1430 690 13 0.0188
Williams College 1520 504 11 0.0218
Whitman College 1440 359 11 0.0306
Colorado College 1380 479 11 0.0230
Smith College 1370 734 10 0.0136
Bates College 1420 517 9 0.0174
The College of Wooster 1330 413 9 0.0218
Millsaps College 1290 276 9 0.0326
Hamilton College 1420 423 9 0.0213
Carleton College 1480 500 8 0.0160
MacAlester College 1450 460 8 0.0174
Franklin and Marshall College 1360 449 8 0.0178
Augustana College 1300 493 8 0.0162
Dickinson College 1370 536 7 0.0131
Beloit College 1300 291 7 0.0241
Juniata College 1260 296 7 0.0236
Wheaton College 1300 592 7 0.0118
Gustavus Adolphus College 1260 716 6 0.0084
Bowdoin College 1460 408 6 0.0147
Hobart William Smith Colleges 1270 425 6 0.0141
Vassar College 1460 670 6 0.0090
Oberlin College 1440 632 5 0.0079
Colby College 1430 484 5 0.0103
Earlham College 1340 226 5 0.0221
Amherst College 1550 409 5 0.0122
Sewanee: The University of the South 1320 292 5 0.0171
Washington and Lee University 1450 463 5 0.0108
Occidental College 1360 438 4 0.0091
Pomona College 1530 368 4 0.0109
Lafayette College 1350 532 4 0.0075
Skidmore College 1340 578 4 0.0069
Denison University 1330 446 3 0.0067
Bucknell University 1380 860 3 0.0035
Lawrence University 1340 294 3 0.0102
Mount Holyoke College 1380 553 3 0.0054
Middlebury College 1500 613 3 0.0049
University of Puget Sound 1355 619 3 0.0048
Bryn Mawr College 1410 320 3 0.0094
Albion College 1220 341 2 0.0059
DePauw University 1320 516 2 0.0039
Ohio Wesleyan University 1320 400 2 0.0050
Hope College 1260 652 2 0.0031
Hanover College 1280 196 2 0.0102
Haverford College 1460 278 1 0.0036
Furman University 1370 661 1 0.0015
Wellesley College 1460 576 1 0.0017
Allegheny College 1300 381 1 0.0026</p>
<p>Seems really accurate for the LAC's. The better programs are closer to the top from my experience. However, Franklin and Marshall I think will fall slightly in the next few years. They have merged their geology with environmental science department and now offer three options in their department, drawing more students towards the allied environmental sciences as opposed to 'pure' geology.</p>
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Not even one geology major in a 700 person class at Wesleyan? Surprising.
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In 2006 Wesleyan had three geology majors graduate with honors. In 2005, they had eight. In addition, there were probably a few geology majors who didn't pursue honors.</p>
<p>According to the IPEDS website, Wesleyan University had no Geology graduates in 2004 and 2005. The 2006 data is not yet available. If Wesleyan is submitting incorrect information to the federal Government, someone should tell them. To be honest, it wouldn't surprise me if the federal government gave Wesleyan bad instructions.</p>
<p>Might be interesting to compare with national research universities. I've heard that geology enrollments have dropped substantially at some universities, and that certain LACs now have more geology majors than certain universities, despite their much smaller size. The specific comparison that I heard was Williams vs. Yale, wonder if it's true.</p>
<p>In 2004, Yale had 4 geology graduates and Williams had 11. It is true. There were only 10-15 universities that had substantially more geology graduates than tiny Williams. But, the most prolific producer of rock hounds by far was a uni...U washington with 65.</p>
<p>There is a similar thread about geo grads at unis...you can search for it.</p>
<p>At 3.5%, St. Lawrence must have the highest % of any school in the country. I've never heard it having a reputation for geology. Colgate, I actually have heard of being a good place for geology and its % is half as many grads. I wonder if this is a one year anomoly for St. Lawrence.</p>
<p>Maybe there is a geology expert out there who can talk about St Lawrence. In the post-baccalaureate origins study, St Lawrence was ranked fifth in PhD production earth sciences, so it is no fluke.</p>
<p>St Lawrence is a hidden gem for geology (get it?).</p>
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St Lawrence is a hidden gem for geology (get it?).
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<p>Not sure about that. But any school that has geology is a step above of one that doesn't offer it (many, many colleges out there). I personally don't know of anyone who graduated from there and this is my second graduate school in geology (plus the geologist community is very close-knit).</p>
<p>My daughter is a junior majoring in geology at Carleton College. Just wondering what grad schools would be a good fit for her interests---she hopes to be into a Phd program in hydrology. Thanks in advance for any info.</p>
<p>carlmom-
top geology graduate schools from US News
US News does not rate hydrology but they do have geochemistry, paleontology, geophysics/seismology</p>
<p>geology
Earth Sciences Specialties: Geology
Ranked in 2006* </p>
<ol>
<li> Stanford University (CA) </li>
<li> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br></li>
<li> California Institute of Technology<br>
Pennsylvania State University–University Park<br></li>
<li> University of Michigan–Ann Arbor<br>
University of Texas–Austin<br></li>
<li> University of Arizona<br></li>
<li> University of California–Berkeley<br></li>
<li> University of Wisconsin–Madison<br></li>
<li> University of Washington<br></li>
<li> Harvard University (MA) </li>
<li> Columbia University (NY)
Cornell University (NY)
Princeton University (NJ)
University of California–Los Angeles<br></li>
<li> University of California–Santa Barbara<br></li>
<li> Yale University (CT) </li>
<li> University of California–Davis<br>
University of Colorado–Boulder<br></li>
<li> Brown University (RI)
University of Minnesota–Twin Cities<br></li>
<li> Colorado School of Mines<br></li>
<li> Johns Hopkins University (MD)
University of California–San Diego<br>
University of Southern California<br>
Virginia Tech</li>
</ol>
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My daughter is a junior majoring in geology at Carleton College. Just wondering what grad schools would be a good fit for her interests---she hopes to be into a Phd program in hydrology. Thanks in advance for any info.
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A Carleton student with decent grades and GRE scores would get serious consideration from any geology grad school in the country. A Carleton grad with good grades, good GRE scores, and a bachelor's thesis would probably be guaranteed admission to any geology PhD program in the country. She should discuss specific schools with the faculty in her department.</p>
<p>I'm a PhD student at Wisconsin - Madison and my department has a strong focus in hydrogeology. Also, very popular with Carleton grads (and the department therefore knows the school very well). Currently there are at least 3 Carleton grads in the department, one new this year.</p>