地球与行星科学（EPS）的科学和博士学位课程主要致力于通过进行重点研究来学习先进的方法论和批判性思维，并辅之以众多主题领域的专门选修课程。学位课程以三个学科核心之一为中心，这些核心核心研究促进反映地球科学部门和SOEST的跨学科性质（地球物理学和构造学，海洋和环境地质学以及火山学/地球化学/岩石学）。此外，与DES或HIGP的顾问一起攻读以行星科学，遥感和矿物物理为重点的EPS学位。学生可以使用各种各样的现场站点以及世界一流的实验室，计算机和舰船研究设施。拥有EPS研究生学位（MS和PhD）的学生可以期待
The Masters of Science and Doctoral programs in Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) enable students to gain advanced knowledge, develop professional skills, and learn cutting-edge methdologies through specialized course work and by conducting research. Study and research are in numerous disciplinary cores including geophysics and tectonics, marine and environmental geology, volcanology/geochemistry/petrology, mineral physics and earth materials, remote sensing, planetary science, and space technology are pursued with advisors in the Dept. of Earth Sciences or the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. Students have access to a wide array of field sites, and world-class laboratory, computing, and ship-based research facilities.<br>Students with EPS graduate degrees (both MS and PhD) pursue careers in industry, government, or in colleges and universities. Geoscience frontiers and challenges of the future including assessing the causes and risks of natural hazards (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, land and beach degradation, sea level rise), understanding past and future climates, unraveling the evolution and composition of Earth's core, mantle, and crust, gaining knowledge about and managing natural resources (water, mineral, energy, beaches), and discovering processes of planetary bodies within, or well beyond, our solar system.