We welcome students interested in pursuing graduate studies and participating in a wide range of research projects. Geography faculty supervise advanced studies in human geography (Gaubatz, Vogel, Applegate, Bowlick, Crow-Miller, Thomas) focused on urban geography, political geography, political ecology, cultural ecology, sustainability, and environmental history, from social science and humanities theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. We also advise students interested in graduate work in environmental geography from both the human geography perspectives listed above and from a physical geography perspective emphasizing carbon cycling (Yu). Finally, we welcome MS-Geography (2 year), MS-Geography-GIST (1 year) or Geoscience Ph.D students interested in research in GIS, GIS education, remote sensing, and/or spatial analysis (Yu, Bowlick, Zhang). Our faculty have strong regional interests in the U.S., Canada, China, Japan, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
If you’d like to apply to UMass for graduate studies in Geography, please contact individual Geography core faculty with whom you wish to study. Click here for more information on Geography faculty.
You are also encouraged to contact the MS and PhD graduate advisor, Professor Qian Yu, or the MS Geography-GIST advisor Professor Forrest Bowlick, for the program you are interested in. Apply online through the UMass Graduate School: https://www.umass.edu/graduate/.
The deadline each year for the MS Geography, and the PhD Geosciences with Geography concentration, is February 1, although submission by January 5 may make you eligible for additional fellowships. The deadline for fall admission for the MS Geography-GIST program is March 1.
MS & PhD Degrees in Geography since 2000 (most recent first)
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