George Mason University

Course Details

Geographic and Cartographic Sciences, MS

Course Description

The focus of this program is to prepare students for careers in geography, remote sensing, and GIS and its increasing applications in diverse fields, as well as cartography, visualization, and modeling. This expertise is useful to civil and defense federal agencies, state and local government agencies, private corporations, and educational institutions. Courses concentrate on the techniques of compilation, display and analysis of spatial data, and their applications. Students are also encouraged to select internships as part of their program. More than 400 of our alumni from this program have entered employment in the Washington, D.C., area since 1978.

Course Duration

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1year

Career outcomes

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Geographic and Cartographic Sciences, MS George Mason University