All plots represent Fall Semester enrollment data from UA Institutional Research and Assessment
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Total enrollment history. Both undergraduate and graduate numbers are sill dropping, largely because of an ongoing oil price bust in 2015 that strongly affected geology enrollments.
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| Degrees awarded are steady, but this is a 4+ year lagging indicator of enrollment. |
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Undergraduate student history and breakdown. BS Geology is down 24% from 2015 high, and BA Geography is down over 40% on the same period. Meanwhile the BS Earth Science degree is growing rapidly, up 200% since 2015.
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| Graduate student history and breakdown. Geoscience PhD students have flattened out at 18, underpinned by 9 hard-funded teaching assistant (TA) slots and supplemented by 9 research assistant (RA) positions. Conversion of Geography MA degree to MS is almost complete (MA Geography degree is discontinued). Geology MS continues to be impacted by slow hiring in the oil and gas sector following the price collapse of 2015-6 and industry rotation to unconventional resource plays that are driven more by data analytics and less by geoscience. |
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Geology field camp enrollment history. Perhaps the tide has turned on Geology Field Camp. Non-UA students increased by over 50% from 2017. Special thanks to UA Chancellor Joe Steinmetz who worked to get in-state tuition for all Field Camp participants starting with summer 2018.
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