Many students choose to rent homes with swamp due to the extremely high cost of cooling with conventional air conditioning. When considering an apartment in Tucson which uses air conditioning, be sure to factor in the increased cost for summer months. If you have serious questions about the electricity costs for a specific location, Tucson Electric Power Company will provide you with a statement of the address's past billing history. For a realistic look at the housing situation try the Online version of the Arizona Daily Wildcat and Lo Que Pasa , two campus newspapers. Return to the Top Student Group Housed in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the geography program has over 150 undergraduate majors and over 50 graduate students.
Students come from all over the United States and many other countries.
The program has close ties with various institutions in Mexico and along the US-Mexico border. Graduates of the program enter academic, public, and business careers. Master's graduates have gone on to work as community and regional planners for government agencies, GIS and remote sensing analysts for private firms, environmental consultants, and research associates at public and private research institutes. Ph.D. graduates typically go into careers in academia. Return to the Top Location Tucson is located in the lush Sonoran Desert and is surrounded by five mountain ranges.