<p>If you are at all interested in a liberal arts college, then Carleton College offers an OUTSTANDING geology department.</p>
<p>British Columbia or Colorado College or UMiami for Geo?</p>
<p>I checked and UW has only two UG majors for every full-time faculty member. That means small classes and more individual attention even at a big school. </p>
<p>Interesting UW alum contact greatly helps the dept.</p>
<p>[Viz</a> Lab UW-Madison](<a href=“http://www.geology.wisc.edu/research/viz_lab/]Viz”>http://www.geology.wisc.edu/research/viz_lab/)</p>
<p>Concentrating on undergraduate studies, a lot of places will give you a great education in Geology/Eath Sciences. Many schools even offer a B.A. AND a B.S. option. In Texas and the southwest, you’ll have multiple options such as Texas-Austin, Rice and the U of Houston.</p>
<p>Also, not as well known but very good undergraduate programs exist (particularly in glaciology, hydrology and environmental geology) at Oregon State University, Western Washington University, U of Missouri-Columbia and Saint Louis University.</p>
<p>At the top are schools like U of Wisconsin-Madison, Texas-Austin (the Jackson School), California Institute of Technology.</p>
<p>While I agree with the general rankings of Geology programs at the grad level, those same schools are not necessarily as good for students at the undergrad level. Class sizes will be bigger, you will be taught by more grad students or junior profs, and the faculty will tend to be more concerned about their research programs than your undergrad progress.</p>
<p>As others have noted, you should not worry much about specialization at the undergrad level - all undergrad programs have a similar set of courses that you need to take (Physical, Historical, Mineralogy, Ig/Met/Sed Petrology, Structural, Geomorphology plus a few others like Stratigraphy, Hydrology, Geophysics, Optical, Glacial), in addition to your supporting coursework (Chemistry, Physics, Math).</p>
<p>The best-prepared undergrad geology students that I have seen as entering graduate students came from SLACs such as Middlebury, Carleton, Bates, Beloit, Whitman, Reed, and Colby. Of course, to get into those colleges, you have to be on the ball to begin with, so that may play a factor.</p>
<p>There are plenty of good state schools too. Check out Humboldt State, for one. I myself went to UVM (VT), which I think has an extraordinary undergrad program. I felt that I was very well-prepared for grad school at UM (MN), but I was impressed with some of my cohorts from the above-mentioned colleges. I remained impressed with grads from those same schools when they arrived at UW (WA), where I worked for several years.</p>
<p>What programs are strong at oregon state jw?</p>
<p>pls i want to do my postragraduate masters degree programme IN PETROLEUM GEOLOGY in the USA but i dont know which university is best for me. thanks</p>
<p>onthefly -</p>
<p>Here is an idea that is a radical departure that will find just the right place for you. I just came from the Geological Society of America (GSA) Northeast/Southeast Sectional meeting in Baltimore. It was filled with undergrads from many universities who were there either to present their participation in undergraduate research or just to go to various sessions. Geology departments brought in van-loads of students, and some schools had booths to promote their geology departments.</p>
<p>The point is this: there are so many aspects to geology: seismology, geomorphology, tectonics, karst geology, hydrology, and on and on and on… What better way than to pay the student fee to drop yourself in the middle of this - talk to the undergrads there and to some of the professors, and see what kind of geology really grabs your interest and which schools are doing that research. This one is over, but there are other sectional meetings during the year. Check up, call someone, and see if the students are as much a part of those meetings as well…</p>
<p>I honestly don’t know whether other regional meetings are like that one (lots of undergrad participation), but the BIG event for GSA is the annual meeting (coming up in late Oct/early Nov in Denver). So far (and there will probably be many more - check closer to the event), the following universities are signed up for booths:</p>
<p>Baylor University - Department of Geology
Colorado School of Mines - Dept. of Geology & Geological Engineering
Geocognition Research Laboratory
Geoinformatics for the Geosciences
Louisiana State Univ - Dept of Geology & Geophysics
Mississippi State University
University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV)
University of Nevada Reno
University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences
University of Wyoming - Geology & Geophysics Dept.</p>
<p>Walking around the exhibit area, checking the poster sessions, and talking to students and professors would certainly be an exciting way to look for a school.</p>
<p>This is an old thread. Please create new threads with questions.</p>
<p>Why? Most people Google or search the topic. This one is about Geology and it’s fairly current.</p>
<p>Don’t forget to take location into account for tie-breakers. My son is interested in plate tectonics and vulcanology. UW in Seattle has a great program with research on live volcanoes such as Mt. St. Helens right down the road. If you want to study faults, California is obviously a logical place. Caves in the east? Go there. Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico? Texas makes sense.</p>
<p>i’m surprised Colorado school of mines isn’t listed on most of these rankings. I mean USGS’s National Earthquake center is on campus and they’re in a prime location for Geology</p>
<p>Does anyone know how the job market looks for new BS and MS geology graduates?</p>