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3. Geophysics and Seismology

Most Popular Schools for Geophysics and Seismology Major & Degree Program

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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Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	University of Houston	63	1%	$23,225
2	Texas A & M University-College Station	42	0%	$29,506
3	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	19	0%	$27,638
4	The University of Texas at Austin	16	0%	$26,506
5	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus	16	0%	$29,097
6	University of California-Berkeley	12	0%	$38,066
7	University of California-Los Angeles	9	0%	$34,620
8	Colorado School of Mines	9	1%	$35,498
9	Boise State University	8	0%	$23,076
10	University of Chicago	8	0%	$78,555
11	California Institute of Technology	7	2%	$72,084
12	University of Nevada-Reno	7	0%	$25,039
13	University of Utah	6	0%	$24,472
14	Michigan Technological University	5	0%	$29,969
15	Southern Methodist University	5	0%	$74,737
16	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	5	0%	$70,240
17	Western Washington University	5	0%	$24,077
18	Stanford University	5	0%	$71,587
19	University of Tulsa	4	0%	$59,725
20	Saint Louis University	3	0%	$61,018
21	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College	3	0%	$30,360
22	SUNY College at Geneseo	3	0%	$25,761
23	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	2	1%	$22,410
24	University of South Carolina-Columbia	2	0%	$28,301
25	West Virginia Wesleyan College	2	1%	$46,561
26	Washington University in St Louis	2	0%	$74,361
27	The University of Texas at El Paso	2	0%	$23,843
28	Brown University	1	0%	$73,802
29	University of Wyoming	1	0%	$19,960
30	Western Michigan University	1	0%	$26,009
31	University of Alaska Fairbanks	1	0%	$20,281
32	Baylor University	1	0%	$62,527
33	University of California-Riverside	1	0%	$35,242
34	University of Akron Main Campus	1	0%	$27,279

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Geophysics and Seismology 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.