Geography, BA/BS with grad track option leading to Geography, MS

The University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee approved a change to this program during the academic year. Please refer to the Catalog Addendum for more information.

The Department of Geography and the Environment offers a grad-track pathway in which students complete a Bachelor’s Degree in Geography or in Geographic Information and Computer Science in four years, and then go on to earn a non-thesis (Professional) master’s degree in geography in the fifth year. This accelerated program, which is cost-effective and time-saving, is designed for exceptional, highly motivated majors who have maintained at least a 3.5 GPA and who desire to emphasize geographic techniques. Students must apply to this program in their junior year. Admitted students will take up to twelve graduate hours during their senior year, which can count both toward their bachelor’s and the non-thesis master’s degrees, as permitted by university rules.

Admission requirements and program policies

Admission requirements

To be eligible for acceptance, students must have completed 75 undergraduate hours, including 12 upper-division hours in the major.

In addition to completing the required courses, students will need to submit:

A statement of purpose
A curriculum vitae or resume
One letter of recommendation testifying to student’s ability to do graduate-level work
An application to the Toulouse Graduate School

GRE scores are not required. Students in the UNT Honors Program and students who satisfy the requirements are guaranteed admission to the program and need not provide letters of recommendation.

Program requirements

In lieu of 3 to 12 credit hours of advanced undergraduate electives in the fourth year, students for the MS in Geography may take up to four 5000-level graduate classes in their senior year with the approval of their advisor. The classes should be chosen from the following list with an eye to fulfilling requirements for the BA/BS and the non-thesis MS. See the requirements for the BA with a major in Geography the BS with a major in Geography and the MS in Geography.

Graduate level courses

GEOG 5170 - Field Methods (aligns with GEOG 4170)
GEOG 5185 - Statistical Research Methods in Geography (aligns with GEOG 4185)
GEOG 5195 - Advanced Geospatial Data Analytics (aligns with GEOG 4195)
GEOG 5220 - Applied Retail Geography (aligns with GEOG 4220)
GEOG 5230 - Location Intelligence: Advanced Business GIS Concepts & Applications (aligns with GEOG 4230)
GEOG 5525 - LiDAR Data Analysis in GIS (aligns with GEOG 4525)
GEOG 5530 - Digital Image Analysis (aligns with GEOG 4530)
GEOG 5540 - Enabling Business Intelligence Using Enterprise GIS (aligns with GEOG 4540)

All remaining courses for the bachelor’s degree must be completed.