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An MSc in Geography and Geoinformatics gives you the opportunity to focus your efforts within a specialised field of geography. You are offered pre-set "competency tracks" that provide you with specialised research-based competencies geared towards special vocational functions.

You can work in depth with topics such as urban and regional development, globalisation, sustainability, resource management, global environmental and natural processes and applied geoinformatics. Thus, the programme gives you plenty of opportunity to compose your own academic profile.

• Academic focus
• Content of the programme
• Structure
• Master's thesis project
• Career opportunities
• Admission requirements
• Tuition fees and application
• Need to know more?

Academic focus

• You will learn about which local and global socioeconomic correlations and processes influence urban development and planning, e.g. in major European cities.
• You will gain an understanding of what globalisation means for the Danish labour market and for regional business and industrial development.
• You will acquire new insights into the causes of migration and changed settlement patterns in developing countries.
• You will gain an understanding of the correlations between such aspects as climate change, land use and social processes in relation to assessing natural resource management.
• You will gain an understanding of sediment transportation and deposits of heavy metals in such areas as the Wadden Sea with a view to responsible nature management.
• You will obtain new insights into soil changes in the Arctic areas, including the earth's binding/release of CO2 in connection with global warming.

Content of the programme

You will work with certain geography problems of your own choosing.

The work methods of the programme include classroom teaching, project work and field studies. So as a student you will receive both academic and practical knowledge as well as analytical and methodological qualifications.

The programme gives you a solid foundation for conducting complex analyses of local, national and global problems on an interdisciplinary basis.

Structure

You can design your MSc studies in geography and geoinformatics in two different ways, depending on whether you choose to write a one-year or a six-month Master's thesis. Further, you can choose to supplement your graduate studies with a commercial project or studies abroad. It is also possible to supplement with courses offered by other departments or universities in Denmark.

As a graduate student doing a 30-ECTS-credit-point thesis:

• Courses in geography and geoinformatics equalling 60 ECTS credit points
• Elective courses equalling 30 ECTS credit points
• Thesis equalling 30 ECTS credit points

As a graduate student doing a 60-ECTS-credit-point thesis:

• Courses in geography and geoinformatics equalling 30 ECTS credit points
• Elective courses equalling 30 ECTS credit points
• Thesis equalling 60 ECTS credit points

Master's thesis project

It is a good idea for you to select a topic for your Master's thesis early in your studies. In this way you can, with the assistance of a professor, select the elective courses that best fit your academic profile.

The thesis is the conclusion of your course of study and gives you the opportunity to do a project in which you work with a scientific problem within your specific fields of interest. The thesis can comprise both text analysis and fieldwork. You may choose a topic that is associated with your supervisor's research projects, or you may work with research enterprises or industry.

Career opportunities

Geographers are both generalists, who can think interdisciplinarily and incorporate different perspectives, and specialists, who are experts within one area. This combination of ‘breadth' and ‘depth' means that geographers find employment in many different areas, including:

• Private sector, e.g. consulting engineering firms
• Public administration, e.g. as urban planners, project coordinators, environmental workers, part-time consultants, business development consultants, student and career counsellors or as academic workers in international organisations such as MS Danish Association for International Co-operation and the UN, which includes working in the third world.
• Consultants for special interest groups
• Researchers and upper secondary school teachers

Admission requirements 

The admission requirements are described in §4 of the curriculum.

Tuition fees and application

You can find information about tuition fees and how to apply for the programme under Admission.

Need to know more?

If you have further questions, you are welcome to contact the international coordinator (go to top of page).