MS Geology
Semester Credit Hours (Courses)
1 12 CH (4 Compulsory courses)
2 12 CH (4 Elective courses)
3 03 CH (Thesis)
4 03 CH (Thesis)
Total Credit Hours 30

Compulsory Courses

Course Codes Course Title Credit Hours
GEO 503 Advanced Petroleum Geology 3
GEO 501 Global Tectonics 3
GEO 512 Mineral Prospecting and Exploration 3
ESC 701 Research Methodology 3

Elective Courses

Course Codes Course Title Credit Hours
GEO 741 Applications of GIS in
Geoscience
3
GEO 748 Advanced Seismic Stratigraphy 3
GEO 705 Advanced Sedimentology 3
GEO 706 Hydrocarbon Geochemistry 3
GEO 707 Basin Analysis 3
GEO 708 Stratigraphy and Petroleum Prospects 3
GEO 747 Drilling Operations and Well Site Geology 3
GEO 710 Groundwater Development and Management 3
GEO 731 Techniques in Structural
Geology
3
GEO 765 Rock Mechanics 3
GEO 721 Soil Mechanics 3
GEO 722 Geochemical Exploration 3
GEO 723 Isotope Geochemistry 3
GEO 724 Clastic Sedimentology 3
GEO 725 Non Clastic Sedimentology 3
GEO 726 Clay Mineralogy 3
GEO 727 Hydrochemistry & Groundwater Pollution 3
GEO 728 Groundwater Modeling 3
GEO 729 Industrial Mineralogy 3
GEO 730 Advanced Marine Geology 3
GEO 734 Reservoir Geology 3
GEO 735 Applied Mineralogy 3
GEO 787 Fundamentals of Gemology 3
GEO 737 Advanced Engineering Geology 3
ENV 737 Recent Trends in
Environmental Engineering
3
ENV 713 Health Safety and Environment 3
GEO 736 Advanced Igneous Petrology 3
GEO 738 Advanced Metamorphic Petrology 3
GEO 739 Ore Deposits Geology 3
GEO 746 Advanced Biostratigraphy 3
GEO 512 Mineral Prospecting and Exploration 3
GEO 702 Geophysical Exploration Techniques 3
GEO 719 Coal Geology 3
ENV 740  Climate Crisis Adaption and Mitigation 3
ENV 722 Disaster Mitigation and
Emergency Management
3
ENV 704 Environmental Impact Assessment 3
GEO 716 Applied Environmental Geophysics 3
GEO 771 Engineering Geophysics 3
MAT 769 Machine Learning in Geosciences 3
GEO 770 Applications of Geostatistics in Geosciences 3
GEO 786 Reservoir Geomechanics 3
GEO 750 Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources 3
GEO 760 Practical Applications of Geosciences 3
THS 799 MS Thesis 6
Any other relevant course from Geophysics/Environmental Sciences