Bachelor's Degree in Geographic Science - Department of Integrated Science and Technology (ISAT)

Potential Careers

Geography graduates find opportunities and careers from a diverse array of employers. As a graduate, you can apply the knowledge, skills, and perspectives gained from your geographical education in the private, governmental, and non-profit sectors. Keeping that spirit of adventure associated with geography, both national and international employers are ready to use your technical skills and global understanding. The JMU Geography Program also has an excellent track-record of placement in some of the best graduate programs in the United States.

Students who concentrate in AGIS have found opportunities in industry with companies such as Earth Satellite Corporation, GeoEye, Lockheed, SPOT Image, Logicom, SAIC, Sanborn, Booz-Allen Hamilton, Boeing, and many others.

Broader employment opportunities include:

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• Working as a GIS analyst for a county government, private company or aid agency
• Analyzing high resolution intelligence imagery
• Using satellite imagery to better understand climate change
• Working for a mapping company
• Using GIS and aerial imagery to manage forests

Private environmental organizations and consulting firms, as well as government agencies, have all hired students completing the environmental studies concentration (ECSD) at JMU. Principal employers include the Environmental Protection Agency, Dewberry, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey and non-profit organizations including the Nature Conservancy and Peace Corps. Particularly marketable for JMU geographic science graduates is the combination of experiences in the environmental geographies and AGIS.

To all prospective employers, you will be attractive with your broad skills, and you will be among the best-informed graduates ready to face the challenges of the twenty-first century.

For more information on careers in geography, visit American Geographers.

For more information visit, JMU Academic and Career Planning