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Graduate / Overview
We are one of North America's leading centers for graduate education in urban geography, migration studies, and in GIS (geographic information science and systems) research. We also offer advanced training in several core areas of geographical knowledge, including economic geography, social and cultural geography, critical development geography, legal geography, and political geography. We have formed strong liaisons with other units on campus and actively encourage our students to form committees and make substantive connections with other departments and programs. Our medical geography emphasis, for example, has important ties with UW units such as epidemiology, anthropology and women’s studies. The geography department offers over 40 courses at the advanced level for both MA and Ph.D. candidates. The masters degree commonly takes two to three years to complete, and the doctorate, three to five additional years. Graduate education is highly individualized, and most graduate students are supported through teaching and research assistantships on a competitive basis. Students have access to state-of-the-art computer facilities and resources. |