For more than 150 years Penn State has been a leader in higher education, as shown by rankings from those who monitor academe from the outside. Programs in all five departments in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences are consistently rated highly in many rankings, including U.S. News & World Report. Below are the most current rankings for the Department of Geosciences.
U.S. News and World Report Rankings
- 4th - Geochemistry, Earth Sciences specialty (2023)
- 7th - Earth Sciences overall (2023)
- 7th - Paleontology (2022)
- 9th - Geophysics and Seismology (2023)
- 10th - Geology, Earth Sciences specialty (2023)
Best Global Universities
- 30th - Geosciences
QS World University Rankings by Subject
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- 14th - Earth and Marine Sciences
- 14th - Geophysics
- 15th - Geology
National Science Foundation Research Expenditure Rankings
Penn State’s research enterprise ranks 22nd nationally in the breadth and depth of its expertise, according to the latest National Science Foundation rankings of Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) research expenditures by key fields and subfields in science and engineering, for FY 2020 released in January 2022.
Department of Geosciences' programs ranked in the top 15 are:
- 12th - Geological and Earth Sciences (Environmental Sciences Subfield)
- 14th - Physical Sciences Overall