Prospective Graduate Students

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Where will a graduate degree in geography take you?

Pretty much anywhere you would like to go.

UC Geography faculty encourage their graduate students to take a diverse array of courses on, pursue and publish cutting edge research, and attend national and international conferences. By fully engaging in our department's research oriented environment, students gain the skills and professional network necessary to succeed in an increasingly competitive world.

Alumni from our department have gone on to pursue successful careers in academia, government and industry.

For more information about our graduate academic programs, browse our programs' website, contact our graduate advisor Xi Chen, and browse our faculty directory to contact a professor with research interests that align with your own.

Additionally, browse through the graduate program website to learn more about application information, funding opportunities, and graduate school requirements.

Student Accomplishments

  • Shujie Wang: 1st author, 2016 publication acceptance in Geophysical Research Letter.
  • Song Shu: Graduate School Dean's Fellowship 2016-2017.
  • Jacek Niesterowicz: Geocomputation 2015 Best Paper Award in the recent Geocomputation 2015 conference
  • Song Shu: first place in the 2015 AAG Cryosphere Specialty Group R.S. Tarr Student Illustrated Paper Competition
  • Shujie Wang: second place in 2015 AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group/Cartography/GIS Student Illustrated Paper Competition.
  • Shujie Wang: Graduate School Dean’s fellowship 2015-2016.
  • Shujie Wang: first place in 2014 AAG Cryosphere Specialty Group R.S. Tarr Student Illustrated Paper Competition.
  • Daniel Schleith - 1st author, 2014 proceedings acceptance at the Nat. Acad. of Science's Transportation Research Board Conference.
  • Jeff Brewer: NSF doctoral dissertation improvement grant 2014.
  • Jacek Niesterowicz - 1st author, 2013 publication acceptance in "Journal of Applied Geography"

Alumni Highlights

  • Qiusheng Wu (PhD, GIS/RS, 2015), Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Binghamton
  • Nathan Wessel (MA, GIS/RS, 2015), PhD student, University of Toronto
  • Shengan Zhen (MA, GIS/RS, 2015), PhD student, UCLA
  • Andrew Rettig (MA, GIS/RS, 2014) - Assistant Professor,University of Dayton
  • Yu Sun (PhD, Environment, 2014) – Assistant Professor, University of North Georgia
  • Deborah Johnson (PhD, Human, 2014) – Adjunct Assistant Professor, Northern Kentucky University
  • Andrew Miller (PhD '10) - Assistant Professor, Saginaw Valley State University
  • Ezgi Akpinar (PhD '10) - Assistant Professor, Southern Connecticut State University