Career outcomes at a glance
$92,580
Median geoscientist salary – May 2023
+8.4%
Growth in professional / scientific / technical services Employment projections
+32%
Growth in mining support Employment projections
Data Analytics & Machine Learning
What you’ll do
Model and visualize large environmental & geophysical datasets.
Good first jobs
- Data/GIS analyst
- Remote sensing analyst
- Jr ML engineer (geo)
Build these at OSU
- Python/R
- Linear algebra & stats
- Signal processing
- RS
- Reproducible workflows
Degree expectation
🟢 Bachelor’s • 🟡 Master’s preferred
Climate & Natural Hazard Risk
What you’ll do
- Map floods, heat, landslides, and seismic risk
- support resilience planning.
Good first jobs
- Hazards/GIS analyst
- Catastrophe modeling asst.
- Resilience planning intern
Build these at OSU:
- Seismology & structures
- Hydrology & climate
- GIS/RS
- Stats
- Python/R
Degree expectation:
🟢 Bachelor’s • 🟡 Master’s preferred
- Technical roles: consulting, hydrology, geophysics, geospatial/data, research
- Calculus‑based math; physics; coding/data expected
- Advanced labs + field experiences; field camp common
- Master’s often preferred for modeling/consulting and many geophysics roles