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Welcome current and prospective graduate students! |
| The Department of Geography offers a Master’s Degree (M.A.) that prepares students for professional positions in government, the private sector, or to pursue a Ph.D. Our program has many strengths, including its flexibility, the close working relationships between faculty members and students, and our interdisciplinary connections with international studies, environmental studies, and women’s and gender studies. We offer both a thesis and comprehensive examination (non-thesis) option. We have approximately 25 graduate students, most of whom receive financial aid from the department or elsewhere on campus. Because Ohio University is on the quarter system, our program offers considerable flexibility and allows students to choose from numerous courses. We do require three courses (Geographic Thought, Research and Writing, and Quantitative or Qualitative Methods) which students take during their first year, but that still leaves room for students to develop a program of study that fits their needs. Our thirteen full-time faculty members are engaged researchers and excellent teachers. The diverse specializations of the faculty create numerous opportunities for students. Many of the theses written by our students fall within these specializations:
Our low student to faculty ratio and our emphasis on the Master’s program facilitates close working relationships among faculty and students. Numerous students have published from their thesis with their advisor. Students also benefit from interacting with students from environmental studies and the five programs in international studies. |
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