Other projects make use of the extensive facilities of the Center for Remote Sensing and the geochemical analytical facilities. Graduate students may be supported through scholarships, teaching fellowships, and research assistantships. For information about BU's Graduate Student Organization, including housing, social events, and other graduate student issues, visit the GSO home page . This program offers qualified students an opportunity to earn both the bachelor's and the master's degree in less time than when the degrees are obtain separately. Admission normally occurs during the fifth semester of undergraduate study, at which time a coherent program is designed to suit the student's special interests and needs.
Students combine course work and directed research leading to a thesis, which is required.
For further information contact the Director for Graduate Studies, Professor Geoff Abers, in the Department. The student is expected to have completed a bachelor's degree, preferably in earth science or a related field, prior to admission to the department. This should include a year of basic chemistry, a year of either physics or biology, and a calculus or statistics course. In addition, students are expected to have completed a course in field geology. Deficiencies to be filled by course work at Boston University should be specified in the outline of study.