Geol/GeoE Placement
Placement of graduate students in discipline-specific jobs was 100% in 2005-2006. Virtually all of our graduates find employment in their desired fields within 1-2 years.
Graduates have been placed in a wide variety of companies and institutions nationwide and internationally. The current high demand for employees in the energy and minerals fields and environmental fields provides multiple opportunities for our graduates. Since 2000, our graduates have been employed by the following:
- Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
- Camp, Dresser, & McKee, Wichita, Kansas
- Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan (Instructor and Researcher)
- EnVision, Rapid City, South Dakota
- Foth & Van Dyke & Assoc. Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Geol Survey of North Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota
- Geological Survey of Thailand
- Horizons, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico
- IT Group, Anchorage, Alaska
- Keith Company, California
- Louisiana State University – Alexandria - Department of Mathematics & Physical Sciences (Assistant Professor of Geology)
- Mauritius Oceanographic Institute (research scientist)
- MontgomeryWatson, Sacramento, California - environmental
- PBS&J, Las Vegas, Nevada
- RE/SPEC, Rapid City, South Dakota
- Roux Associate, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
- San Diego Museum of Natural History, and Paleontological Monitoring firm in southern California
- Shaw Environmental, Honolulu, Hawaii
- South Dakota Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources, Rapid City
- South Dakota Geological Survey, Vermillion, South Dakota
- States West, Gillette, Wyoming
- Stillwater Mining, Montana
- Terraine, Inc., Knoxville, Tennessee
- U.S. Geological Survey, Rapid City, South Dakota
- University of Oklahoma - Curatorial Specialist (Ornithology) Museum of Natural History,
- University of Oklahoma - Curatorial Specialist (Paleontology) Museum of Natural History
- URS Corporation
- Wharf Resources, South Dakota
- Augustana Univ., Illinois
- Johns Hopkins Univ.
- Montana State University
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
- Univ. Florida
- Univ. of London
- Univ. Texas El Paso
- Univ. Toronto
- University of Rhode Island
- University of Texas-El Paso
