Career in Geology - By: Shiksha

Converting your passion into your profession is an accomplishment, which is made by very few people in the world. For this, you need to be very focused and from the starting of your career, you should have your goals clear and set in your mind, as in, from where you have to start and in which direction you need to move on. There is no stop to success, so deciding a single goal point, would mean you are non- ambitious and want to have a constant style of living throughout your life. Which I think is really impossible in this fast moving world, to exist here, you need to deal with the competencies of the world. To meet the speed of the work culture and the developments in different industries, students in today’s arena are opting for courses, in which they are excellent and they can give their best output.

Students these days are seen opting new courses, which are different and yet interesting. One such course, which is extremely different and is catching the attention of youngsters, is Geology. It has not been much preferred in the earlier days, as it is now in demand. Keeping in mind, the increasing interest of the students in career opportunities related to geology, many colleges of India have also started courses in geology. For pursuing a course in geology, a student needs to have sciences in his senior secondary classes, with main focus on the physics and chemistry. Geology constitutes the study of the physical matters of the earth, how it formed and what all brought the earth into existence. Geologists are mostly involved in the analysing and extraction of minerals and hydrocarbons. They are also involved in the job of understanding and predicting the various earthquake and volcanic eruptions.

The students applying for the geology course should have a very sharp mind and should have a great analysing power. Geology is an important academic discipline, which is a part of many other main fields, like engineering and medical sciences. There are many colleges and universities in India, which provide bachelors as well as post graduate degree in Geology, including the top most university of India, Delhi University. Following is a list of colleges, which provide courses in geology to students:

 Presidency College, University of Calcutta

 Government Science College, Bangalore University

 Hansraj College, University of College

 Durgapur Government College, The University of Burdwan

 Government Post Graduate College Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh University

 Jagannath Barooah College, Dibrugarh University

 Fergusson College, university of Pune

 Bharathi's Women's College, Madras University

 Pragjyotish College, Guahati University

 Dhempe College of Arts & Science, Goa University

 Dhana Manjuri College, Manipur University

The students applying to these colleges need to have strong bases in science and should be able to produce the best of the results with all the possible research. There are different fields, which a student can choose as his career. Few of the career options are mentioned as below:

 Economic Geology
 Environment Geology
 Geochemistry
 Historical geology
 Seismology
 Geological modelling
 Volcanology
 Petrophysics
 Geomythology
 Geography
 Meteorology
 Structural geology
 Earth science
 Oceanography
 Geoarchaeology

All these options aim to make a perfect career for a student in the field of Geology. The colleges for Geology in India are also directed at the goal of making a student a successful practitioner in the field of geology. Students with degrees in geology subjects can have a very bright and prosperous career and if you are in the same line you can actually prove to be an asset for the country as well as the growth of the whole globe.

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