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

Starting 2027-09-22 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-05 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

100

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Credits

45 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Stanford, United States

Disciplines

Earth Sciences Geography View 175 other Masters in Geography in United States

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Academic requirements

GRE^®

Required

English requirements

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100

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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 Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

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Non-residents

42360 USD / year

≈ 42360 USD / year
Out-of-State

42360 USD / year

≈ 42360 USD / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

26480 USD / year

≈ 26480 USD / year

Additional Details

Tuition per quarter. Students are typically enrolled in classes for three quarters: autumn, winter, spring

Living costs

Stanford

United States

1100 - 1600 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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