For unconditional admission a student must meet the following requirements:
- A BS in an earth science discipline with the following courses or their equivalent: mineralogy, petrology, structure, stratigraphy/sedimentology, field geology and geophysics, or paleontology. In addition, one semester of biology, calculus I and II, and a year of chemistry and physics is required.
- A minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, as calculated by the graduate admissions.
- Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores are used in conjunction with GPA's. For example a person with a GPA below 3.0 will need a GRE score better than average. Masters students who have succeeded in the Earth and Environmental Science s Program typically score higher than the 60th Percentile on the verbal and quantitative portion of the GRE.
- For applicants whose native language is not English and have not completed a Bachelors degree at a US institution, they must meetEnglish, a minimum score of 550 on the following minimums: TOEFL iBT (minimum 81 overall, with sectional scores of at least 22 writing, 23 speaking, 20 reading, Test of English as a Foreign Language (or an equivalent score on a computer-based test) or 16 listening) or IELTS (minimum overall band of 6.5, with a speaking score a score of 7.0).
- Favorable letters of recommendation from people familiar with the applicant’s academic work.