Overview
Key facts
The department's graduate coordinator, in coordination with the departmental faculty, appoints an academic adviser during registration with appropriate consideration of the student's background, interests, and professional goals. In consultation with the adviser, the student plans a program of course work for the first year. The Earth System Science program is offered at Stanford University.
The student should select a thesis adviser within the first year of residence and submit to the thesis adviser a proposal for thesis research as soon as possible.
The academic adviser supervises completion of the department requirements for the M.S. program as outlined below until the research proposal has been accepted; responsibility then passes to the thesis adviser. The student may change either thesis or academic advisers by mutual agreement and after approval of the graduate coordinator.
Programme Structure
Courses included:
- Climate Change: An Earth Systems Perspective
- From Freshwater to Oceans to Land Systems: An Earth System Perspective to Global Challenges
- Research Proposal Development and Delivery
- Fundamentals of Modeling
- Measurements in Earth Systems
- Remote Sensing of the Oceans
- Remote Sensing of Land
- Physical Hydrogeology
- Contaminant Hydrogeology and Reactive Transport
- Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics: The Atmospheric Circulation
- Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics: the Ocean Circulation
- Analyzing land use in a globalized world
- Earth Sciences Seminar
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 24 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Earth Sciences Geography View 286 other Masters in Geography in United StatesAcademic requirements
English requirements
Other requirements
General requirements
- Applicants must hold, or expect to hold before enrollment at Stanford, a bachelor’s degree from a U.S. college or university accredited by a regional accrediting association.
- Applicants from institutions outside the U.S. must hold the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree from a college or university of recognized standing. See minimum level of study required of International applicants.
- TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) scores are required of all applicants whose first language is not English.
- International students enrolled must be able to read English with ease, understand rapid idiomatic English as used in lectures and group discussions.
Tuition Fee
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International
25080 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 12540 USD per semester during 24 months. -
National
25080 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 12540 USD per semester during 24 months.
Regular quarterly tuition
Living costs for Stanford
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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