Geology

Our geology program is your access point to a valuable career tackling some of the most critical challenges facing Southern California. Our classes equip you with the foundational science, math, and spatial analysis skills needed to successfully transfer into a bachelor's program; our recent graduates have successfully transferred to prestigious regional colleges and universities, including CSU Fullerton, CSU Long Beach, San Diego State, and USC. In Orange County and beyond, geologists are in high demand to help address the "grand challenges" of our era, such as confronting the impacts of climate change, managing and sustainably developing key energy and mineral resources, addressing critical water resource issues like groundwater replenishment and pollution prevention, and mitigating local natural hazards such as coastal erosion and seismic fault lines, and lead the transition toward sustainable energy resources. Whether your ultimate goal is environmental consulting, public policy, or engineering geology, your path to a high-impact Earth science career starts right here at Orange Coast College!

For more information on career pathways in the Geosciences, visit the American Geosciences Institute's Geoscience Careers page.