Honors Program Qualifying students are strongly encouraged to pursue an honors degree. To gain admission to the honors program students need a minimum GPA of 3.2. Honors study involves the completion of a substantial piece of original research and the formal presentation of the results in an honors thesis and oral defense. There are a variety of job opportunities in government, business, and industry in technical sub-fields of Geography such as GISc, remote sensing, and cartography. Private firms, governmental agencies, and environmental organizations also hire geographers for field investigations, locational analysis, land use planning, recreation and tourism planning, and foreign area expertise among many others.
Many geographers pursue teaching at all levels.
For more career information see Geography s web site. Majors have entered graduate programs as diverse as city and regional planning, business, medicine, and ecology.