Graduate Degree Programs
The Department of Geosciences at The University of Akron offers Masters of Science programs in a number of concentrations including:
- Geology
- Earth Science
- Environmental Geology
Graduate Certificate
- Geographic Information Sciences
- Environmental Studies
For more information about our programs please see the Graduate Bulletin. As a student considering graduate study you have many different objectives in mind. It may be a desire to broaden your knowledge of the science, qualifying for employment, advancing organizational goals, or continuing towards your education towards a Ph.D. program. Whatever your goals are the Department of Geology and Environmental Science's objective is to help the student make use of their skills in a way suited to them. In doing so the Department offers:
- Training applicable to employment in the public, private, and government sectors
- Regular lectures from the public and private sector professionals as part of our seminar series
- Information about current available jobs in the field circulated though email
- Professional development and networking strategies
- Encouragement in presenting research findings at professional geosciences meetings
- All of this, plus an innovative faculty to further educate you and get involved with in cutting edge research, await you at The University of Akron.