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.
U.S. News and World Report Rankings
Graduate Programs
- 1st -Geology, Earth Sciences specialty (2018)
- 3rd -Environmental Sciences, Earth Sciences specialty (2018)
- 4th -Geochemistry, Earth Sciences specialty (2018)
- 5th -Earth Sciences;overall (2018)
Best Global Universities
- 30th - Geosciences
QS World University 2016 Rankings by Subject
- 32st - Earth and Marine Sciences
National Science Foundation Research Expenditure Rankings
In the most recent institutional rankings (FY2018) released by the National Science Foundation of total research expenditures for science and engineering, Penn State ranked in the top 10 in expenditures in 18 research fields. EMS programs ranked in the top twenty were:
Physical Sciences
- 9th - Overall
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences
- 20th - Overall
- 7th - Geological and Earth Sciences (Subfield)