PhD Earth and Environmental Sciences at Vanderbilt University

Programme overview

Faculty and students work together at the doctoral or masters-to-doctoral levels to pursue studies that address fundamental questions in the Earth and environmental sciences, spanning deep geological timescales to human and societal timescales. The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences offers the following graduate degrees: The Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences The Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences provides comprehensive training for students who wish to become professional scientists and/or to teach Earth and environmental sciences at the university level. This is generally a five-year program and includes full funding .

Faculty: Graduate School | Study mode: full-time | Location: Nashville, TN, United States

What you will study

Note that all students without an M.S. degree will earn the M.S. as part of the Ph.D. curriculum.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Application Details As part of our effort to create a more equitable application process and to increase access to graduate education in the geosciences, we have instituted the following policies with the support of the Vanderbilt Graduate School: The GRE exam requirement has been eliminated from the graduate application and will not be considered in our evaluation process. You will need to submit a statement of purpose as part of your application and the application prompt is relatively general. We are providing the following prompt as guidance for the statement of purpose: “Pursuing graduate studies in science requires that students continually make use of their curiosity, creativity, and perseverance.

Graduate School fall application deadlines differ by department and range from 1 December to 15 January. The Graduate School application fee is $95, paid online after submitting the application, and only one fee is charged for up to two programme applications per year.

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