The General Geology Pre-Professional Plan in the Department of Physical Sciences is designed for students who are planning to pursue graduate degrees in Geology or who prefer to have all potential B.S. employment options available to them. The B.S. in Geology degree enables students to work as geologists for private or governmental employers in environmental science, for most mining companies, and, with appropriate education courses, as K-12 teachers of Earth Science or Geology. A Bachelor of Science degree will also enable a person to work as a geotechnician in the petroleum industry.

Because UTPB does not offer a Summer Field Geology Course, it must be taken at a University that offers it. Those credits are then transferred back to UTPB. Students must obtain their advisor?s approval for the specific institution selected for that Summer Field Geology Course (6 credit hours) and the transcript will reflect the course number used by the institution from which they took the course.