150 Full-time PhD programmes in Earth Sciences

Geophysics is a discipline investigating the structure of the Earth, its temporal variations and related forces. This PhD program is offered at Bogazici University.

Mountain Dynamics is a key theme in our Dynamic Earth Research Group at The Open University UK. Our research into tectonics and mountain building covers the processes and mechanisms relating to how mountains form on the surface of our planet and how the continental crust deforms from the macroscale to the microscale.

Learn to generate rigorous scientific inquiry that bridges the gaps identified in scientific knowledge. The University of North Dakota's Earth System Science and Policy Ph.D. combines theory with practice, global and local perspectives, and scientific and social disciplines.

The Earth and Environmental Sciences doctoral program at Boston College provides students with the tools they need to perform novel research in Earth and environmental sciences.

Earth and Environmental Sciences focuses on environment, water, climate, geochemistry and geology. This degree is offered at McMaster University.

Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences faculty conduct multi-disciplinary research projects among many of Rice University's science and engineering departments.

Armed with an array of cutting-edge technologies and tactics, the University of Nevada, Reno Geophysics program prides itself on bringing traditional classroom subjects, such as mathematics and physics, into the great outdoors. Hence its motto: "The earth is our laboratory."

The goal of the Earth and Environmental Sciences program from Columbia University is to educate future scientists who may follow careers in academia, research, government, and industry.

The School of Earth and Climate Sciences at The University of Maine offers MS and PhD degrees in Earth and Climate Sciences. 

As a student in the Geosciences Ph.D. program at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, you will have the opportunity to conduct novel research in a preferred focus area.

The Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University is a leading research and education department, attracting researchers and students from around the world.

 Earth Science is a strongly interdisciplinary subject with several links to important resources such as minerals, energy, and water as well as to hazards and environmental management. The Earth Sciences programme is offered at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

The University of Naples Federico II proudly offers a comprehensive doctoral program in Earth, Environmental, and Resources Science.

The Earth and Atmospheric Sciences program at Georgia Institute of Technology aims to produce breakthrough discoveries through research in Earth, atmospheric, ocean, and planetary sciences as well as interdisciplinary research involving the Earth system and the environment.

The Aberystwyth University DProf Geography and Earth Sciences programme combines taught modules with research conducted by students under the supervision of AU staff who have expertise in the topic of study.

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences offers programs leading to the PhD degree at Johns Hopkins University in a wide range of disciplines, covering the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, geochemistry, geology and geophysics, and planets. Our goal is to educate scientists who will make fundamental and lasting contributions to their fields.

Throughout the Earth Sciences course from The University of Cambridge you will have either done an undergraduate degree in an earth science subject or, perhaps, want to use your degree from another science subject such as physics, chemistry, mathematics or biological sciences; be relishing the stimulus of one of the UK's premier research departments.

This research in Geoscience from University of Göttingen, focus examines geological, mineralogical, crystallographic and biological processes in the formation of minerals and rocks. Interactions at different geological and biological interfaces are investigated. 

The Antarctic Studies programme from The University of Cambridge is an institute of the UK Research & Innovation - Natural Environment Research Council (UKRI-NERC) and is responsible for the UK's national scientific activities in Antarctica.

The Environment, Society and Global Change program sit within the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Freiburg.