Career Opportunities for Geology Majors
Career Opportunities for Geology Majors: General Career Opportunities | Companies Our Grads Work/Worked For | Graduate Schools our Grads Have Attended | Bureau of Labor Statistics
General Career Opportunities
By nature, Liberal Arts majors make great employees in any field because of their ability to communicate effectively, think critically and solve complex problems. These timeless skills make them attractive to employers in all walks of society. Specifically though, Geology majors often pursue careers in:
- Environmental Geology
- Petroleum Exploration
- Geology Teaching
- Museums
- State and National Parks
- Environmental Protection Agency
- State and local regulatory agencies
- Private Environmental Firm
When the Geology major is matched with complementary minors and thoughtful internships, new possibilities arise. A few examples are:
- Geology + Physics = Geophysics (study earthquakes, explore for minerals or oil, etc.)
- Geology + Chemistry = Geochemistry (study the age and origin of rocks, study volcanoes, etc.)
- Geology + English = Scientific writer
- Geology + Biology = Environmental scientist or Pale
- Geology + Foreign Language = Geologists Without Borders (find new sources of fresh water for communities)
- Geology + Mathematics = Groundwater hydrologist
Companies Our Grads Work/Worked For
AAPS
Anadarko (Denver)
Army Corp of Engineers (three different divisions)
Bechtel Nevada (Nevada Test Site)
BHP Petroleum (Houston)
BP Exploration
Chevron
Division of Water Resources (Kansas)
Encana Oil & Gas (Denver)
Equinor (Norway)
Foster Wheeler, Vermont
Geotechnical services Inc.
Iowa, DNR Water Resources Section
James Cook University (Australia)
Kiewit
Kleinfelder Assoc. (Omaha consulting firm)
Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality
Naval Research Lab
New Mexico Geologic Survey
New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission
NOAA
Okayama University (Misawa Japan)
RDG Inc.
Thiele Geotech
Southwest Texas University
Terracon (Omaha)
University of Bristol
United States Geological Survey
University of California Sacramento
UNO
URS/Greiner, Inc
Washington State Department of Ecology
Graduate schools UNO Geoscience alumni have attended:
- Boston University
- Colorado School of Mines
- Columbia University
- Clemson University
- East Carolina University
- Iowa State University
- Kansas State University
- Northeast Louisiana University
- Penn State
- SMU
- Syracuse University
- Texas A & M
- Texas Tech
- Texas Christian University
- University of Arizona
- University of Colorado Boulder
- University of Florida
- University of Idaho
- University of Kansas
- University of Nebraska at Lincoln
- University of Nebraska at Omaha
- University of New Mexico
- University of New Orleans
- University of Northern Illinois
- University of Maine
- University of Missouri - Columbia
- University of North Dakota
- University of Western Washington
- University of South Carolina
- University of Texas at Dallas
- University of Wyoming
- Western Washington University