Top ranked world universities in geology & geophysics (2021)

Geology & geophysics are key sub-disciplines in the field of Earth sciences, geology deals with the structure, surface/sub-surface geologic processes, history, materials (minerals, rocks), and composition of the Earth. While geophysics deals with the physical properties of the Earth by using several techniques, including; gravity, magnetics, electromagnetics, radiometric, electrical resistivity, thermometry, and seismic methods.

QS World University Rankings, an annual publication of by Quacquarelli Symonds, a British company specializing in higher education released its 2021 subject rankings. In both geology and geophysics disciplines, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland), a public university in Switzerland leads the ranking at #1 position. ETH Zurich was established in 1855, and is currently ranked #6 by QS world rankings for 2021 in the world.

List of top ranked universities in geology

Among the top 50 ranked universities in geology, 20 belong to USA, 7 universities from Australia and UK are also ranked in the top 50 list. 4 Canadian universities, and 2 universities each from Switzerland, China, and Norway made the list as well. The details of the top 50 ranked universities in geology are given below:

Rank	University	Country
#1	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland
#2	University of Oxford	UK
#3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
#4	University of Cambridge	UK
#5	Harvard University	USA
#6	Australian National University	Australia
#7	California Institute of Technology (CalTech)	USA
#8	University of California, Berkley (UCB)	USA
#9	Stanford University	USA
#10	University of Washington	USA
#11	Princeton University	USA
#12	Columbia University	USA
#13	University of Leeds	UK
#14	University of Bristol	UK
#14	Utrecht University	Netherlands
#16	Yale University	USA
#17	University of British Colombia (UBC)	Canada
#18	The University of Edinburgh	UK
#19	Imperial College London	UK
#20	The University of Tokyo	Japan
#21	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	USA
#22	University of Toronto	Canada
#23	University of Colorado Boulder	USA
#24	The University of Western Australia	Australia
#25	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	USA
#26	Pennsylvania State University	USA
#27	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia
#28	University of Texas at Austin	USA
#29	Sorbonne University	France
#30	Peking University	China
#31	University of Oslo	Norway
#32	McGill University	Canada
#33	Curtin University	Australia
#34	University of Arizona	USA
#35	University of Bergen	Norway
#36	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	USA
#37	University College London (UCL)	UK
#38	Colorado State University	USA
#39	The University of Melbourne	Australia
#40	University of Bern	Switzerland
#41	Oregon State University	USA
#42	University of Tasmania	Australia
#43	China University of Geoscience	China
#44	Durham University	UK
#45	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
#46	The University of Copenhagen	Denmark
#47	University of Maryland, Davis	USA
#48	University of California, Davis (UCD)	USA
#49	The University of Queensland	Australia
#50	University of Alberta	Canada

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List of top ranked universities in geophysics

Among the top 50 ranked universities in geophysics, 21 belong to USA, 5 universities from Australia and 9 from the UK are also ranked in the top 50 list. 4 Canadian universities, and 2 universities each from Switzerland and Norway made the list as well. The details of the top 50 ranked universities in geophysics are given below:

Rank	University	Country
#1	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland
#2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
#3	University of California, Berkley (UCB)	USA
#3	University of Oxford	UK
#5	California Institute of Technology (CalTech)	USA
#6	Harvard University	USA
#7	University of Cambridge	UK
#8	University of Washington	USA
#9	Princeton University	USA
#10	Columbia University	USA
#10	Stanford University	USA
#12	Australian National University	Australia
#13	University of Leeds	UK
#14	University of Bristol	UK
#15	University of Colorado Boulder	USA
#15	Utrecht University	Netherlands
#17	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	USA
#18	Yale University	USA
#19	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	USA
#20	The University of Tokyo	Japan
#21	The University of Edinburgh	UK
#22	University of Toronto	Canada
#23	Imperial College London	UK
#24	University of British Colombia (UBC)	Canada
#25	Sorbonne University	France
#26	Pennsylvania State University	USA
#27	University of Texas at Austin	USA
#28	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia
#29	University of Oslo	Norway
#30	Colorado State University	USA
#31	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	USA
#32	University of Arizona	USA
#33	McGill University	Canada
#34	University of Bergen	Norway
#35	Peking University	China
#36	The University of Melbourne	Australia
#37	University of Bern	Switzerland
#38	University College London (UCL)	UK
#39	The University of Western Australia	Australia
#39	University of Maryland, Davis	USA
#41	Oregon State University	USA
#42	University of California, Davis (UCD)	USA
#43	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	USA
#44	University Breman	Germany
#45	The University of Copenhagen	Denmark
#46	University of Alberta	Canada
#47	University of Tasmania	Australia
#48	Curtin University	Australia
#48	Durham University	UK
#48	The University of Exter	UK

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