Bachelor's in Geology

Geology is a Bachelor program taught at Occidental College, USA. Intake: Fall, Spring. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (4 years) options.

The Geology major at Occidental College helps you understand how the Earth works, including shifting plates, climate change, earthquakes, climate records, minerals, water resources, and environmental change. You study Earth’s structure, surface processes, and climate history, and you practice collecting evidence, interpreting data, and building clear scientific arguments.

Learning includes fieldwork, lab analysis, and research. You train in the lab and the field using tools such as chemical analysis, microscopes, GIS mapping, and sediment sampling. Faculty guide hands-on lab and field work, and students may present at conferences, publish papers, or complete field camps and funded summer research through the Undergraduate Research Center.

You can focus on an environmental science concentration within the geology major. Geology also offers options to study abroad or join Oxy-led courses in multiple countries, and you can connect geology with mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and environmental science. Geology graduates commonly pursue careers in environmental consulting, hydrology, geothermal energy, and critical mineral exploration, or they continue with graduate study in Earth and environmental sciences.

Modules

• Earth: A Field Perspective
• Earth’s Climate: Past & Future
• Structural Geology
• Environmental Geochemistry

The minimum requirements for admission in Geology at Occidental College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Occidental College.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Occidental College as pre-requiste for admission in Geology.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.oxy.edu/academics/areas-study/geology

• Environmental consulting
• Hydrology
• Geothermal energy
• Critical mineral exploration
• Environmental consulting, hydrology, resource management, hazard assessment, planning, education, and research
• Law
• Public policy
• Business
• Data analysis
• Glaciologist & Project Coordinator, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Conservation Coordinator, The Nature Conservancy
• Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Rock Magnetism
• Fluvial Geomorphologist, Inter-Fluve

80 fully funded scholarships are listed for USA. See USA scholarships.