I get a lot of phone calls from high school students and their parents about where to go to school to study to be a meteorologist. There are several dozen colleges and universities in the U.S. that have a Department of Meteorology or Atmospheric Sciences and offer a four-year Bachelor's degree. And a few of these schools are relatively close by.

In Pennsylvania, Millersville University near Lancaster offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology, as does Penn State, which has the largest Meteorology Department in the country. In New Jersey, Rutgers University at New Brunswick also offers a B.S. in Meteorology. In the First State, the University of Delaware has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography, with an emphasis in Climatology, and a B.S. program in Environmental Science with a concentration in the Atmospheric Sciences.

For all the information you'll need about schools that offer such degrees, check the web site of The American Meteorological Society at

www.ametsoc.org/AMS