专业中文名：地球科学文科硕士
专业英文名：MA in Earth Science
学　　　制：1.00 年
学　　　费：39880 美元/年
入学时间：1,8月
授课语言：英文
授课校区：美国莱斯大学
领　　　域：自然科学
申请费：85美元

美国莱斯大学地球科学文科硕士课程都是根据个人的兴趣、优势和学术背景来定制的。地球科学文科硕士侧重于提供学生学术知识和物理环境，将使学生能有原创性研究并能在专业期刊上介绍并发表。学生在毕业时必须要完成一个学期的助教工作，但如果有个人兴趣或是个人导师的要求，可以做更多的工作。 美国莱斯大学地球科学文科硕士课程的大部分学生可以获得全额学费减免和国家竞争力的奖学金，使他们舒适地住在休斯敦-一个令人兴奋的，多样的，文化丰富的城市。 Rice Earth Science offers an unusual combination of quality, resources, opportunity and cultural richness to its graduate students. The department offers two graduate thesis programs, a MS and a PhD degree. Each program is customized to the individual student's interests, strengths and academic background. The focus in on providing the intellectual and physical environment that will enable students to generate original groundbreaking research, presentations, and publication in professional journals. Students are required to complete one semester as a teaching assistant during their graduate work, but they can do more if there is personal interest or by individual faculty request. Most students in the thesis degree programs receive full tuition waivers and receive nationally-competitive stipends that enable them to live comfortably in Houston — an exciting, diverse, and culturally-rich city.

美国莱斯大学地球科学文科硕士课程入学要求： 学术要求： 大学本科毕业，拥有学士学位，GPA不低于3分 语言要求：雅思总分不低于7分，托福总分不低于90分 All incoming students should have a strong background in physics, chemistry, and mathematics and should have, or should acquire, a broad grounding in fundamental earth science. The department encourages applications from well-qualified students with degrees in the other sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Applicants are required to submit the following: Completed application form. Transcripts of all previous college or university work. GRE scores---verbal, quantitative, and analytical. (The ETS code for Rice is: 6609;the code for Rice Earth Science Department is 0504.) Foreign students whose language of instruction was not English must submit TOEFL scores. The Rice university code is 6609; the department TOEFL code is 71. For the iBT TOEFL, a minimum score of 90 is required. For the IELTS, the required minimum score is 7. Four letters of recommendation are preferred, however we will accept three. Application fee of $85 payable by credit card or check (checks must be written in U.S. currency only) or request for a waiver written by the financial aid officer at the student's previous institution. 美国莱斯大学地球科学文科硕士课程申请材料： 毕业证、学位证扫描件 成绩单（在校成绩、语言成绩） 个人陈述 银行存款证明 翻译件（所有中文申请材料的翻译件，并加盖公章） 2-3封推荐信

美国莱斯大学地球科学文科硕士课程就业方向： 地质类专业勘查，预测自然灾害，地质灾害评估与治理； 勘查石油与天然气和煤田地质构造；造地理信息系统建设；专题地图制作；非开挖管线铺设；岩矿测试；矿产品开发等。 Houston is both the center of the international energy industry as well as home to NASA's Johnson Space Center and the Lunar Planetary Institu