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Most Popular Schools for General Geology/Earth Science Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the scientific study of the earth; the forces acting upon it; and the behavior of the solids, liquids and gases comprising it. Includes instruction in historical geology, geomorphology, and sedimentology, the chemistry of rocks and soils, stratigraphy, mineralogy, petrology, geostatistics, volcanology, glaciology, geophysical principles, and applications to research and industrial problems.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Texas A & M University-College Station 145 1% $29,506
2 Mississippi State University 138 3% $24,957
3 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 134 1% $36,652
4 University of Houston 85 1% $23,225
5 Washington State University 79 1% $27,484
6 The University of Texas at Austin 78 1% $26,506
7 West Virginia University 70 1% $23,294
8 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 70 1% $23,694
9 Texas Tech University 67 1% $24,472
10 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 66 1% $33,503
11 Columbia University in the City of New York 65 1% $76,856
12 Montana State University 61 2% $22,453
13 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 59 0% $27,638
14 Western Washington University 59 2% $24,077
15 University of Colorado Boulder 57 1% $31,044
16 Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania 57 3% $25,052
17 Colorado State University-Fort Collins 56 1% $26,231
18 Oklahoma State University-Main Campus 56 1% $24,105
19 University of Arizona 55 1% $29,217
20 University of Louisiana at Lafayette 55 2% $25,922
21 Stanford University 53 1% $71,587
22 University of California-Irvine 53 1% $34,261
23 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College 51 1% $30,360
24 The University of Texas at San Antonio 50 1% $23,715
25 University of California-Santa Barbara 49 1% $36,659
26 University of California-Santa Cruz 49 1% $36,217
27 Ohio State University-Main Campus 48 0% $27,367
28 University at Buffalo 46 1% $27,758
29 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus 46 1% $29,097
30 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 45 0% $30,298
31 Wright State University-Main Campus 43 1% $25,116
32 University of Wisconsin-Madison 43 0% $26,025
33 University of South Florida-Main Campus 42 0% $23,320
34 Michigan State University 41 0% $28,862
35 University of Utah 41 1% $24,472
36 University of North Carolina Wilmington 40 1% $24,982
37 Brigham Young University-Provo 40 1% $18,776
38 Northern Arizona University 40 1% $27,266
39 California State Polytechnic University-Pomona 40 1% $28,891
40 Miami University-Oxford 39 1% $33,229
41 College of Charleston 39 2% $30,239
42 San Diego State University 38 0% $29,318
43 University of Wyoming 38 1% $19,960
44 The University of Texas at Dallas 38 0% $29,286
45 University of Oregon 37 1% $27,366
46 Baylor University 36 1% $62,527
47 University of Florida 35 0% $21,211
48 University of Arkansas 34 1% $25,500
49 Georgia State University 33 0% $26,014
50 West Chester University of Pennsylvania 33 1% $27,074
51 Purdue University-Main Campus 33 0% $22,822
52 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 33 1% $24,486
53 The University of Alabama 33 0% $29,872
54 The University of Texas at Arlington 33 0% $26,660
55 University of Houston-Downtown 32 1% $7,732
56 University of Kansas 32 1% $26,566
57 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville 32 0% $31,510
58 Kent State University at Kent 31 0% $25,886
59 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 31 0% $26,834
60 Grand Valley State University 31 1% $24,948
61 Sam Houston State University 30 1% $22,478
62 University of California-San Diego 30 0% $32,838
63 Ohio University-Main Campus 30 0% $28,986
64 Central Washington University 30 1% $23,201
65 Stephen F Austin State University 29 1% $22,156
66 George Mason University 29 0% $30,284
67 University of South Carolina-Columbia 29 0% $28,301
68 California State University-Bakersfield 28 1% $26,009
69 University of Tulsa 28 2% $59,725
70 James Madison University 28 1% $27,356
71 Western Michigan University 28 1% $26,009
72 University of Nevada-Las Vegas 28 1% $24,035
73 The University of Texas at El Paso 28 1% $23,843
74 Boise State University 27 1% $23,076
75 California State University-Sacramento 27 0% $26,454
76 Carleton College 27 6% $71,325
77 University of California-Davis 27 0% $35,177
78 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 27 0% $27,898
79 University of Akron Main Campus 27 1% $27,279
80 Florida State University 26 0% $22,168
81 Iowa State University 26 0% $21,186
82 Montclair State University 26 0% $31,704
83 Portland State University 26 0% $26,085
84 East Tennessee State University 26 1% $24,068
85 University of California-Los Angeles 26 0% $34,620
86 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 26 0% $30,102
87 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 26 1% $20,349
88 East Carolina University 26 0% $21,672
89 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 25 0% $23,977
90 University of New Mexico-Main Campus 25 0% $22,639
91 Florida International University 25 0% $23,506
92 Kansas State University 24 0% $24,923
93 University of Memphis 24 1% $25,423
94 University of Georgia 24 0% $26,688
95 Appalachian State University 23 0% $19,194
96 California State University-Long Beach 23 0% $24,738
97 Southern Illinois University-Carbondale 23 1% $29,367
98 University of Kentucky 23 0% $30,101
99 Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania 23 1% $25,147
100 College of William and Mary 23 1% $39,221

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Geology/Earth Science, General program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.