Overview

Augustana College offers a major and minor in Geography. Students use social and natural science techniques and geospatial technologies to understand human-environment relationships and key global and local issues like climate change, sustainability, urbanization, resource management, and environmental justice. A new minor in geographic information science and technology (GIS) focuses on skills in geospatial analysis.

In the interdisciplinary field of geography, you’ll make connections between related fields throughout the liberal arts. And through your professors’ connections to community partners and resources, you’ll find career-boosting opportunities such as internships, work and field experience in the Quad-Cities metro area along the Mississippi River.

You’ll also embark on field trips with class groups or the whole department, investigating site-specific issues and exploring the geography of more distant places. Recent destinations include the Pacific Northwest, Louisiana Gulf Coast, Colorado and Great Plains, Intermountain West, California, Nevada and Southern Illinois.

Distinctions

Many Augustana geography graduates enter graduate programs in geography, urban planning, geomorphology, landscape architecture and environmental studies.

The geography and the geology departments are housed in Swenson Hall of Geosciences, a proximity that encourages cross-disciplinary work and interests in the earth sciences. Swenson Hall also houses the Fryxell Geology Museum and the bulk of the David M. Loring Map Library, which holds more than 100,000 climatic, geologic, hydrologic, topographic and transportation maps and 6,000 aerial photographs.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Our Digital Earth

Weather, Climate, and Society

Landforms & Landscapes Dynamics

Human Geography of Global Issues

Geography & Film

US Regional Immersion Exp

Natural Resource Management

Soil Science

Our Environmental Legacy and Our Future

Urban Planning and Environmental Justice

Geography of Latin America

Geography of the Arctic

Historical Geography of North America

Digital Cartography and Design

Applied Environmental GIS

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-02-04 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-11-01 00:00:00
Starting 2027-09-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-04-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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IELTS

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Rock Island, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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IELTS

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Other requirements

General requirements

An official high school transcript.

A secondary school report (counselor report).

English language proficiency

Have a teacher, academic advisor or school official send a letter of recommendation for you to Augustana (recommended but not required).

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

53186 USD / year

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Out-of-State

53186 USD / year

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Domestic

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In-State

53186 USD / year

≈ 53186 USD / year

Living costs

Rock Island

United States

1100 - 1500 USD / month

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Overview

Distinctions

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

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Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

Disciplines

What students do after studying

Academic requirements

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Tuition Fees

International Applies to you

Domestic

Living costs

Rock Island

Funding

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Scholarships Information

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