Degree in Geography
240 credits - Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
| Duration | 4 years / 240 credits |
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| Level MECES | 2 |
| Spots for new students |
50 places for the academic year 2024-25
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| Teaching method | In-Person Classes |
| Price |
Public price per credit, 1st registration: ¤15.63, ¤36.02, ¤77.97, ¤108.05 for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th enrolment respectively.
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Total cost
of the first enrolment in the first year:
¤978.99
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(*) Prices for the academic year: 2024-25
(**) Total cost of the first enrolment in the first year, including taxes, for EU
members under 28 years of age without any
special condition:
The main goal of the degree in geography is to train professionals with the scientific knowledge necessary to understand, interpret, analyse, and identify both the environmental as well as social components of the territory that surrounds us. Graduates will be able to work in areas related to natural resources, population, urban planning, land management, the environment, landscapes, transport, and tourism. The training combines classroom work and seminars as well as field work, which is one of the main pillars of this programme.
What skills will you acquire?
Students will learn about: the social and territorial organisation of physical and social processes and their reciprocal relationships; gathering and interpreting data in order to create and defend arguments, as well as communicate ideas, problems, and solutions; developing critical understanding skills; and mastering the technology used for analysing geographic data.
What profile should you have?
Although it is possible to take the Geography programme with any secondary school diploma pathway, or even by other methods, the recommended admission profile to be able to follow the Geography programme without any difficulty and to successfully achieve the aims of the curriculum is as follows:
- The ability for abstraction, interlinking and synthesis
- The ability for spatial observation
- The desire for field and teamwork
- An interest and sensibility for environmental, social and territorial issues
- An interest in learning cartography, remote detection and geographical information system (GIS) techniques
- A flexible, inquisitive, innovative, propositional attitude and creative spirit.
What career opportunities will you have?
Geography offers a wide variety of professional career pathways thanks to its multi-disciplinary and applied nature. The wide areas of the job market open to geographers include:
- Town and country planning
- Environmental planning and management
- Geographical information technology
- Socioeconomic and territorial development
- The knowledge society (teaching and promotion of scientific knowledge).
Workplaces include:
- Professional territorial and environmental offices: producing plans, programmes and projects linked to the environment, society and town and country planning
- Government work as an expert (the environment, water, town and country planning, risks and emergencies, climate, heritage)
- Working as an engineer on geographical and cartographical information systems
- Local development expert
- Environmental education
- Teaching.
In addition, the professional careers in the geography field in academe and research should also be taken into account.
Travel and Learn
The UIB offers students the chance to take part in different exchange and mobility programmes:
- Exchange and mobility programmes: to complete part of your studies at another university in Spain, the European Union, and around the world, or to get work experience at businesses in the European Union, managed by the International Relations Service.
- Volunteer work experience and projects with university development cooperation programmes in least developed countries, run through the development cooperation programmes managed by the Cooperation for Development and Solidarity Office (OCDS).
High-quality official study
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