Penn State's Department of Geography is committed to excellence in a full range of geographic skills with outstanding faculty who work closely with students to help them reach their full intellectual and professional potential. We have tremendous breadth and depth in graduate academics. We have both resident and online graduate and professional students pursuing degrees and certificates ranging from GIS to spatial data to geospatial intelligence analytics and more.
We attract, and encourage, students from a wide variety of academic backgrounds. We offer the following resident graduate degrees:
We also offer the following online graduate degrees:
- Master of Science in Spatial Data Science
- Master of Geographic Information Systems
- Intelligence and Geospatial Analysis option in the Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security
We also offering the following graduate certificates:
- Geographic Information Systems
- Geospatial Programming and Web Map Development
- Remote Sensing and Earth Observation
- Geospatial Intelligence Analytics (GEOINT)
We offer 5 Dual-title graduate degree programs and 1 intercollege graduate degree program (IGDP).
Visit our Interdisciplinary Programs webpage for more information