US News and Report
2008 Ranked UCSB's Earth Science program 21st amongst Graduate Schools. U.S. News has collected data from more than 12,000 graduate programs to bring you this year's rankings.

2001 UCSB ranked one of Best Graduate Schools.

Science Watch
Ranked our Geosciences research 3rd among public universities (8th overall) and, in related fields, both Physics and Materials Science were ranked first in the nation.