Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology General

A general program that focuses on the scientific study of the composition and behavior of the atmospheric envelopes surrounding the earth, the effect of earth's atmosphere on terrestrial weather, and related problems of environment and climate. Includes instruction in atmospheric chemistry and physics, atmospheric dynamics, climatology and climate change, weather simulation, weather forecasting, climate modeling and mathematical theory; and studies of specific phenomena such as clouds, weather systems, storms, and precipitation patterns.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 64 institutions across the United States, with a total of 2914 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

certificates awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

560

degrees awarded

Master's Degrees

223

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

123

degrees awarded

Other Awards

1,959

awards given

Top Schools for Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology General

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	251
2	Pennsylvania State University-World Campus University Park, PA	168
3	Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX	162
4	University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO	126
5	Florida State University Tallahassee, FL	111
6	University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO	105
7	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	105
8	University at Albany Albany, NY	96
9	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	90
10	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	84
11	University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT	81
12	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	72
13	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	72
14	Valparaiso University Valparaiso, IN	66
15	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	66
16	Colorado State University-Fort Collins Fort Collins, CO	63
17	Plymouth State University Plymouth, NH	54
18	University of Georgia Athens, GA	51
19	Millersville University of Pennsylvania Millersville, PA	48
20	San Jose State University San Jose, CA	48
21	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	48
22	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	45
23	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	42
24	University of North Dakota Grand Forks, ND	42
25	North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh, NC	42
26	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	39
27	George Mason University Fairfax, VA	36
28	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, SD	33
29	University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI	33
30	University of Nevada-Reno Reno, NV	33
31	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	33
32	Northern Illinois University Dekalb, IL	33
33	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach Daytona Beach, FL	30
34	Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX	27
35	University of Wyoming Laramie, WY	27
36	University of Delaware Newark, DE	27
37	Jackson State University Jackson, MS	27
38	University of Miami Coral Gables, FL	27
39	Saint Louis University Saint Louis, MO	24
40	Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY	24
41	University of Louisiana at Monroe Monroe, LA	24
42	Ball State University Muncie, IN	24
43	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	21
44	East Carolina University Greenville, NC	21
45	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	20
46	University of North Carolina Asheville Asheville, NC	18
47	Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, TX	18
48	University of Houston Houston, TX	18
49	University of Massachusetts-Lowell Lowell, MA	15
50	United States Air Force Academy USAF Academy, CO	15
51	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI	12
52	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	12
53	University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE	12
54	Air Force Institute of Technology-Graduate School of Engineering & Management Wright-Patterson AFB, OH	12
55	University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, AL	12
56	Metropolitan State University of Denver Denver, CO	12
57	Utah State University Logan, UT	12
58	North Carolina A & T State University Greensboro, NC	9
59	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott Prescott, AZ	9
60	Western Connecticut State University Danbury, CT	9
61	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	6
62	Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI	6
63	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	3
64	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	3