该计划将两个非常受欢迎的学科整合在一起，以帮助培养需求的地球物理学家。地质学是对地球及其工作方式的研究：其矿物，岩石，其结构以及在地球表面上下的相互作用。它还关注揭示地球历史（包括生命史）和预测未来的地质事件。地球物理学应用数学，物理学原理和模型来研究地球内部，并研究地球的电磁场和引力场。乍一看，这两个主题可能看起来非常不同，但实际上却没有。一位地球物理学家探索了与地质学家相同的问题，但是通过应用物理，数值和计算机技术方法，尤其是基于物理的技术来研究地球内部和探索自然资源。如果您想知道火山或地震是如何发生
This programme brings two hugely popular subjects together to help develop in-demand Geophysicists.Geology is the study of the Earth and how it works: its minerals, rocks, their structure and interactions above and below Earth's surface. It is also concerned with unravelling Earth history, including the history of life, and predicting future geologic events. Geophysics applies mathematics, the principles of physics, and modelling to study the Earth’s interior and investigates the Earth’s electromagnetic and gravitational fields.At first sight, these two subjects, may appear very different however they are not. A Geophysicist explores the same problems as a Geologist but by application of physical, numerical, and computer technology methods and particularly physics based techniques to the study of Earth’s interior and for the exploration of natural resources. If you have ever wondered how volcanoes or earthquakes happen, why Tyrannosaurus is extinct, why mountains form, how oil and gas forms and how to find and produce it, or how climate changes over time, ask a Geophysicist.