KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The American Association of Geographers has given its 2019 Award for Program Excellence to Western Michigan University's Department of Geography. WMU earned the award for its Master ...

NEW HANOVER – Tyler Petrochko’s first foray into coding came in a round-about way. ‘I was a freshman. I was really, really addicted to Netflix,’ said the current Germantown Academy senior hailing from ...

Geography is the study of people and place. It is a wide-ranging discipline. Geographers are interested in how natural processes, people and systems are affected by the specifics of a place—location ...

This academic program emphasizes intellectual growth, critical analysis and communication, and professional development. Ability to contextualize social and environmental problems in real-world ...

The University library (Knowledge Center) is the largest in the state, with more than 861,000 volumes, 6,000 current periodical subscriptions, 2.5 million pieces of microform and more than 50 CD-ROM ...

Geographers strive to understand how people are shaped by, and in turn help shape, our world. Our top-ranked geography program allows students to combine fields of inquiry—from indigenous mapping and ...

Admission to the program is open to students who hold a bachelor's degree in any discipline. Some concentrations may expect previous coursework in mathematics. In addition to 30 credits hours of ...

The Ph.D. program requires a minimum of 72 credits and a preliminary examination, original research culminating in the submission and defense of a research proposal and dissertation. The Ph.D. program ...

The graduate program of the Department of Geography offers both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. The program’s basic purpose is to train scholars and professionals to produce and disseminate knowledge and to ...