What Will I Learn in a Geography Program?
Geography majors develop a broad range of skills applicable in many industries:
- Gather, assess, analyze, interpret and display data
- Solve mathematical and computational problems
- Create maps
- Integrate databases
- Communicate effectively
- Understand and articulate abstract concepts
- Think and plan spatially
- Recognize moral and ethical issues involved in debates
- Visualize and analyze relationships between places and processes
- Think multidimensionally and holistically to solve complex problems
- Apply rhetorical theory to professional practice
- Understand the composition of Earth and the processes that operate on it
What Can I Do With a Geography Degree?
Geography graduates work in numerous careers:
- Cartographer
- Community developer
- Demographer
- Emergency management specialist
- Environmental scientist
- Forestry technician
- Foreign services officer
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyst
- Geographer
- Geopolitical consultant
- Geospatial analyst
- Historic preservationist
- Housing development specialist
- International aid/development worker
- Landscape architect
- Lobbyist
- Logistics and distribution manager
- Map librarian
- Nature conservation officer
- Natural resources manager
- Outdoor guide
- Park ranger
- Photogrammetric compilation specialist
- Policy researcher
- Professor
- Real estate appraiser
- Secondary school teacher
- Soil scientist
- Surveyor
- Sustainability consultant
- Tourism officer
- Urban and regional planner
- Water resources specialist