Welcome!
We are a department of 15 faculty and approximately 25 graduate and 85 undergraduate students. Our focus is in two broad thematic areas, Climate - Surface Interactions and Tectonic - Lithospheric Processes. We promote excellence in both teaching and research, in a collegial and collaborative academic setting. |
| BU Ranks in Top Ten | Institution |
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According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, BU Earth Sciences places ninth across the nation in faculty scholarly activity among Geoscience Departments in 350 universities across the nation. The list of schools is reproduced to the right. For more information on the ranking system, which assesses faculty publications, citations, grants, and awards, click here . |
1 | California Institute of Technology | |
| 2 | U. of California at Irvine | ||
| 3 | Pennsylvania State U. | ||
| 4 | U. of California at Berkeley | ||
| 5 | Arizona State U. | ||
| 6 | Harvard U. | ||
| 7 | Stanford U. | ||
| 8 | Yale U. | ||
| 9 | Boston U. | ||
10 |
Princeton U. |