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US universities with strong programs in geophysics are located in major cities in America, have excellent technical equipment, state-of-the-art laboratories and classrooms.
Students of the Geophysics program study the structure of the Earth and its physical parameters, get acquainted with such areas as seismic exploration, gravity and magnetic exploration, exploration of the earth's crust when drilling wells, and the study of volcanoes.
This specialty is suitable for attentive people with an analytical mindset who like to work in the field. Geophysicists with knowledge of technical English are in great demand and easily find work abroad.
Best geophysics universities in USA 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | Harvard University |
| 2 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 5 | Columbia University |
| 6 | Stanford University |
| 7 | University of Washington |
| 8 | Princeton University |
| 9 | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 10 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 11 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 12 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 13 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 14 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 15 | The University of Arizona |
| 16 | Texas A&M University |
| 17 | Yale University |
| 18 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 19 | University of California, Davis |
| 20 | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 21 | Arizona State University |
| 22 | Colorado State University |
| 23 | Cornell University |
| 24 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 25 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 26 | Purdue University |
| 27 | University of California, Irvine |
| 28 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 29 | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 30 | University of Chicago |
| 31 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 32 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 33 | Colorado School of Mines |
| 34 | Duke University |
| 35 | Michigan State University |
| 36 | Northwestern University |
| 37 | Oregon State University |
| 38 | The Ohio State University |
| 39 | University of Florida |
| 40 | University of Miami |
| 41 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities |
| 42 | University of Oklahoma |
| 43 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| 44 | Brown University |
| 45 | Florida State University |
| 46 | University of California, Riverside |
| 47 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 48 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 49 | University of Utah |
| 50 | University of Virginia |
