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Geography - Master of Science

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The Master's Program in Geography is designed to enable the student to achieve professional competence in the discipline. This program is intended to increase substantive and technical proficiency and is offered as either research-based (with thesis) or course-based (without thesis).

Current requirements and admissions criteria can be found in the Academic Programs Catalog.

Any applicant who does not currently hold a master’s degree in Geography or a related field is required to apply to the Master’s Degree program.

Applicants with previous research and publication experience will have an opportunity at the end of their first year to present a dissertation pre-proposal at a department colloquium, to be considered to fast-track into the Ph.D. program (see Straight-to-PhD page for more details).

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