It is a combined department that is attractive to students who are interested in science, the earth and its people. Students may major in either discipline. Often, because the fields are so closely related, students choose to major in one area and minor in the other. In 1990, independent researchers at the State University of New York-Geneseo ranked Northwest's Geography program as number two in the nation for program effectiveness.
Students say they like the program because it is so diverse.
Geography deals with people and situations more than other classes you are going to take. It's all interrelated. You learn something and apply it to your next class. The nice thing about Geography is that it relates all your fields, cultural as well as physical. What most people don't realize however, is that today , geographers use high-tech computers to organize information in ways that have never before been possible.