Program Overview
Geography graduates are equipped with subject-specific skills (GIS, remote sensing, modeling) and transferable skills (teamwork, problem-solving). This combination makes them highly valued in the job market, where adaptability and flexibility are prized. Graduates find employment in diverse sectors, including urban planning, environmental consultancy, research, and financial services.
Program Outline
Careers:
Geographers are trained to analyze and provide solutions to diverse global challenges, ranging from the environmental and the urban, to the economic, political and social. This combination of subject specific (such as GIS, remote sensing, and modeling) and transferable skills (such as teamwork and problem solving) make geography graduates highly valued in today’s job market, where adaptability and flexibility are widely regarded as assets. The ease with which our graduates find employment in all sorts of sectors suggests that employers know this! Careers taken up by graduating geography students include urban and regional planning, environmental consultancy, research and teaching, financial services, foreign affairs, leisure, tourism and overseas development.
