Applicants must have a bachelor's degree from an accredited university with an overall undergraduate GPA of at least 2.8 or a 3.0 during the last 60 undergraduate semester hours. Students must have a combined verbal and quantitative GRE score of 1000. The Department of Geography at UNT offers graduate instruction leading to a master of science degree with a major in applied geography. The degree has thesis and non-thesis options both requiring a total of 36 semester credit hours. The curriculum involves core courses, techniques courses and topical courses.
Core courses involve training in research design and advanced quantitative methods.
Techniques courses focus on a series of specialized skills, including the use of air photo analysis, environmental modeling, geographical information systems, global positioning systems and remote sensing. Topical courses are designed to integrate the specialized training with real world applications in physical and human geography. Students will also complete 6 semester credit hours in a cognate field as part of the required 36 semester credit hours. Examples of suitable cognates are community service, computer science, economics, environmental ethics, environmental science, political science or public administration. The emphasis in the degree is toward applied geographic problem-solving such as siting of public facilities, regional economic analysis, health care delivery systems, environmental modeling of potential effect of climate change, groundwater remediation and monitoring and coastal change.