Earth Sciences (MSc)
Advance your knowledge of earth and environmental sciences.
Why choose this program?
Prepare for a professional career in resource or environmental industries, a research or technical position, or further studies in earth sciences, engineering, law, education, and other professional fields. Active cooperation among Dalhousie’s science departments offers you unique advantages for collaboration.
Careers
Our graduates have diverse careers in marine geology and geophysics, appalachian geology, isotope geology, economic geology, petrology, geochemistry and mineralogy, geophysics, sedimentology, micropaleontology and coastal sedimentation, structural geology, metamorphism, and tectonics.
Admission requirements
You'll need to meet the Faculty of Graduate Studies minimum requirements as well as any program-specific admissions requirements before you can apply.
Financial information
At Dalhousie, we want our students to focus on their studies, rather than worry about their personal finances. We offer competitive tuition rates and funding programs to support graduate students in almost all of our degree programs.
Program options
Thesis: Pursue independent and original research guided by a supervisor to develop and defend your thesis.
All graduate programs at Dalhousie are collaboratively delivered by a home Faculty and the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
