Graduate Career Opportunities - Department of Geosciences

A graduate degree from the Department of Geosciences prepares you for a wide range of career opportunities.

A significant number of our MS and PhD graduates join both the local and international oil industry.
Some of our PhD graduates choose to pursue academic careers with colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.

Graduates with a focus on hydrogeology and environmental geology, remote sensing, geographic information sciences (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) find career opportunities in governmental and non-governmental environmental firms.

Many of our graduate students benefit from internships with the local and regional oil industry.

Employment Resources

Academic Careers Online
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
American Geosciences Institute
American Geophysical Union
Association for Women Geoscientists
Dallas Geological Society
Geological Society of America
GeoSearch Inc.
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
SEG Student Connections
Physics Today Career Network
Rigzone