The study of earth and marine sciences requires an academic background in mathematics and physics or chemistry.

Depending on the country, undergraduate courses in this field are either three or four years long, with a further one or two years for postgraduation.

Top Colleges 
Rank College/University Country
1 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology < href='https://www.ethz.ch/en.html' >https://www.ethz.ch/en.html Switzerland
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) < href='https://www.mit.edu' >https://www.mit.edu United States
3 Harvard University < href='http://www.harvard.edu/' >http://www.harvard.edu/ United States
4 University of Cambridge < href='https://www.cam.ac.uk' >https://www.cam.ac.uk United Kingdom
5 University of Oxford < href='http://www.ox.ac.uk/' >http://www.ox.ac.uk/ United Kingdom
6 University of California, Berkeley < href='https://www.berkeley.edu' >https://www.berkeley.edu United States
7 Stanford University < href='https://www.stanford.edu' >https://www.stanford.edu United States
8 California Institute of Technology < href='https://www.caltech.edu' >https://www.caltech.edu United States
9 Australian National University < href='https://www.anu.edu.au' >https://www.anu.edu.au Australia
10 Columbia University < href='www.columbia.edu' >www.columbia.edu United States

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