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A program that focuses on the scientific study of the physics of solids and its application to the study of the earth and other planets. Includes instruction in gravimetric, seismology, earthquake forecasting, magnetrometry, electrical properties of solid bodies, plate tectonics, active deformation, thermodynamics, remote sensing, geodesy, and laboratory simulations of geological processes.
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| A major in Geophysics and Seismology is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided. |
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Top 19
U.S.
Colleges with the
most degrees awarded
of Geophysics and Seismology among the 2006-2007
graduating class.
|  | University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX | 9
(0.1%) |  |  |
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| | University of Chicago
Chicago, IL | 7
(0.6%) |  |  |
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| | University of Houston
Houston, TX | 6
(0.1%) |  | |
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| | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN | 6
(0.1%) | | |
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| | Texas A & M University
College Station, TX | 5
(0.1%) | | |
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| | University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Seattle, WA | 4
(0.1%) | | |
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| | University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA | 3
(0.0%) |  |  |
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| | University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA | 2
(0.1%) | | |
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| | Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA | 1
(0.3%) | | |
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| | Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA | 1
(0.0%) | | |
* The number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2006-2007 graduating class.
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