| GEOSCIENCES | |||||||
| Earlham and peer institutions - weighted ranks among 1,469 institutions | |||||||
| Institution Name | Weighted Rank: 1971-1980 | Weighted Rank: 1976-1985 | Weighted Rank: 1981-1990 | Weighted Rank: 1986-1995 | Weighted Rank: 1991-2000 | Weighted Rank: 1995 - 2004 | Weighted Rank: 1975 - 2004 |
| Carleton College | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Beloit College | 13 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 7 |
| Franklin and Marshall College | 13 | 8 | |||||
| Earlham College | 26 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 17 | 11 |
| College of Wooster, The | 11 | 15 | 38 | 11 | 9 | 27 | 13 |
| Reed College | 36 | 17 | |||||
| Haverford College | 82 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 18 |
| Colorado College | 8 | 20 | |||||
| Oberlin College | 57 | 31 | 32 | 36 | 13 | 16 | 22 |
| Occidental College | 32 | 28 | |||||
| Lawrence University | 44 | 33 | |||||
| Hamilton College | 40 | 36 | |||||
| Whitman College | 14 | 37 | |||||
| Macalester College | 165 | 175 | 60 | 44 | 48 | 20 | 44 |
| Knox College | 268 | 47 | |||||
| Bates College | 28 | 52 | |||||
| Lafayette College | 81 | 55 | |||||
| Washington and Lee University | 88 | 60 | |||||
| Grinnell College | 49 | 59 | 90 | 142 | 95 | 70 | 64 |
| Guilford College | 412 | 144 | 74 | 69 | 82 | 64 | 80 |
| Kalamazoo College | 80 | 106 | 122 | 103 | 51 | 84 | |
| Denison University | 67 | 129 | 161 | 116 | 139 | 102 | 85 |
| Hampshire College | 57 | 91 | |||||
| Rhodes College | 122 | 120 | |||||
| University of the South | 99 | 129 | |||||
| St Olaf College | 94 | 163 | |||||
| Trinity College (Hartford, CT) | 461 | 275 | |||||
| Centre College | 251 | 313 | |||||
| Connecticut College | 191 | 314 | |||||
| Kenyon College | 129 | 234 | 405 | 387 | |||
| Lake Forest College | 631 | 619 | |||||
| Pitzer College | 631 | 839 | |||||
| Scripps College | 631 | 839 | |||||