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Most Popular Schools for Geological/Geophysical Engineering Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and geological principles to the analysis and evaluation of engineering problems, including the geological evaluation of construction sites, the analysis of geological forces acting on structures and systems, the analysis of potential natural resource recovery sites, and applied research on geological phenomena.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Missouri University of Science and Technology 186 7% $22,440
2 Colorado School of Mines 95 6% $35,498
3 University of Mississippi 46 1% $25,436
4 University of Wisconsin-Madison 33 0% $26,025
5 South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 22 4% $25,020
6 Michigan Technological University 22 1% $29,969
7 University of Nevada-Reno 18 0% $25,039
8 Montana Technological University 13 3% $22,603
9 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 10 0% $27,898
10 The University of Texas at Austin 9 0% $26,506
11 University of Pennsylvania 5 0% $74,408
12 University of Alaska Fairbanks 5 0% $20,281
13 University of Utah 4 0% $24,472
14 Rutgers University-Newark 4 0% $32,708
15 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 3 0% $30,298
16 University of North Dakota 3 0% $22,091
17 University of California-Los Angeles 2 0% $34,620
18 University of Arizona 1 0% $29,217
19 University of Idaho 1 0% $21,350

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Geological/Geophysical Engineering 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.