Information for Prospective Graduate Students

The NMSU Department of Geological Sciences has one of the strongest MS-only programs in Geology in the country. We accept between 5-8 new students each year, so the student/advisor ratio tends to be very low, typically 1-5. Our students go on to jobs in industry or government, and recent graduates have continued in Ph.D. programs such as Stanford, U.C.L.A., Purdue, and UT-Austin.

General information on our graduate program can be found here
Graduate application information can be found here

If you are making inquiries about working in my research group, I have ongoing projects related to structural geology, tectonics, U-Pb geochronology, isotope geochemistry, petrology, and more.

I am always looking for good, enthusiastic students to begin projects.

Please read some of our publications and recent abstracts to learn more about our research.
For more information, such as reprints of papers, please email me your address.

I can lobby for your admission if I know more about you. Sending your overall GPA, GPA in geology classes, and GRE scores can also be useful. Let me know if you have done undergraduate research, what your mapping experience is, and what your research and career interests are.

Also, submitting all of your application materials EARLY definitely helps. Finally, if you email with specific questions I would be happy to answer them. It is difficult to respond to vague requests for "information" because I don't know if you are serious or if you have sent the same email to 100 schools.

I look forward to hearing from you.

-Jeff Amato

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Last modified 09/26/11