After an introductory course in Earth Science, there are options of Physical Geography or Geology on the 2nd year level, and further options within Geology on the 3rd year level of majors in Mineralogy and Petrology, Historical Geology and Palaeontology, or Quaternary Geology. The Geology options of the study programme will be further described below. Top of page Postgraduate education Postgraduate programmes are offered at the Geology sub-departments. The requirement for admission is a B.Sc. A full Ph.
D programme requires a minimum of four years of study.
60 ECTS credits, and a supervised research programme. The research programme is carried out within established research groups and is completed with a thesis that can be a monograph or, more commonly, the summary of a collection of published papers. Top of page Research Research is carried out within departmental research groups, normally with international collaboration. Field work may be carried out in any area from the Arctic to the Antarctic. The research is predominantly funded by the Swedish Natural Science Research Council.