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EAPS Graduate Program

The graduate program at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences aims to educate outstanding young scientists—primarily at the Ph.D. level—for careers in academia, government, and the private sector. Demanding and eye-opening, our program is ranked second in the country for its number of graduates who obtain tenure-track faculty positions in the earth sciences.

EAPS graduate students pursue degrees through programs in geology, geochemistry and geobiology; geophysics; atmospheres, oceans, and climate; planetary science; and the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program in Oceanography. Through consultation with a department committee and a personal faculty advisor with mutual research interests, each student develops a specialized program of study and research tailored to his or her background, needs, and goals.

• Graduate degree programs.
  
• Graduate admissions information.
  
• EAPS Department faculty, researchers, and current graduate students.
  
• Funding opportunities for graduate students.

Our department’s graduate students have an active professional organization—the EAPS Graduate Student Advisory Committee (EGSAC)—that coordinates social activities and organizes a peer mentoring program. In addition, EGSAC works to improve the overall graduate student experience by conferring with the EAPS Graduate Committee, the EAPS faculty in general, and appropriate Institute committees. EGSAC aims to bring the graduate and post-doc community closer together.

• Learn more about EGSAC.