Overview

In practice, geography deals with the analysis of topics ranging from environmental problems, political boundary disputes, and ethnic conflict to applied and more localized issues such as establishing new voting districts to provide better representation for ethnic minorities, tracking the spread of an infectious disease, determining where the next freeway link should be built, assessing the location of oil pipelines, or urban planning and governance.

Geographers are prepared for positions in teaching, government, private business, urban and regional planning, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing (RS), resource management, and environmental analysis. The University of Miami's Department of Geography and Regional Studies offers a wide range of specializations that relate to the social and natural sciences. Processes of globalization and environmental change have increased the importance of the geographical analysis of human society and nature-society interactions particularly the linkages between global processes and local outcomes as well as the growing interconnections of places across the globe.

Mission

The Department of Geography (GEG) seeks to encourage the rigorous investigation of human-environment interactions, and the analysis of spatial patterns related to societal processes. It reaches across disciplines to draw on a range of methods, theories, and perspectives that help us understand how ideas and structures result from the interaction of space, place and time. The department's core objective is to foster the examination, open discussion, and lively debate of geographic issues among faculty and students from all fields of study, enriching the undergraduate curriculum and the university's academic mission through greater communication across disciplines and colleges. Its aim is to broaden, deepen, and transform the learning community at UM and beyond.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

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Digital Earth

Physical Geography

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-12 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-11-01 00:00:00
Starting 2027-08-18 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-05 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

120 - 126 credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Miami, 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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Other requirements

General requirements

Complete and submit the Common Application. Upon submitting, you will be asked to pay a $70 nonrefundable application fee.

If you have attended a secondary school outside of the United States, you must submit your official secondary school documents (transcripts, mark sheets, certificates, examination results, etc.)

We require you to submit two letters of recommendation: one from a high school guidance counselor and one from a teacher.

The University of Miami is need-aware for first-year international undergraduate applicants. This means that, for a portion of international applicants, the Admission Committee will consider that student’s ability to pay tuition without the need for financial aid.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

63456 USD / year

≈ 63456 USD / year
Out-of-State

63456 USD / year

≈ 63456 USD / year
Domestic

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In-State

63456 USD / year

≈ 63456 USD / year

Living costs

Miami

United States

1508 - 2603 USD / month

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Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

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Credits

Delivered

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Academic requirements

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General requirements

Tuition Fees

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Domestic

Living costs

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Funding

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