Master of Science in Geography

The Department of Geography at Florida State University offers graduate degree programs at the master's and doctoral levels designed to equip students with the technical skills and intellectual creativity required in a changing labor market. Faculty and students investigate critical issues of society, geospatial inquiry, and the physical environment that embrace methodological and theoretical solutions, including cities and urban flows, critical geographies of autonomy and liberation, urban GIS and remote sensing, climate change, risk and society, and biodiversity, conservation, and management. PhD Geography and MS/MA Geography are internationally-respected programs that allow students the opportunity to develop their knowledge of geography at a deeper intellectual level, and to collaborate with faculty on many issues including, transportation optimization, land use/land cover change, urban growth, population mapping, regionalization and localization theory, political ecology, environmental conflict and policy, local economic development, urban sustainability, environmental health, hurricane/tornado forecasting, tropical forests and grasslands, coastal and estuarine ecosystems, marine conservation, energy consumption and conservation, and resource management.

Applicants must hold a degree in Geography or a related field from an accredited college or university. Individuals holding degrees in fields other than geography are welcome to apply but may need to make up deficiencies, as judged by the graduate director and major professor. For PhD, minimum requirements for admission are a 3.0 GPA and GRE scores of at least 144 (Quantitative) and 153 (Verbal). GRE scores for Master's programs are waived through Fall 2026. GRE scores for Master's programs are waived. Students whose native language is not English, in addition to the above, must also score a minimum of 600 on the paper-based, 250 on the computer-based, or 100 on the Internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), and at least 45 on the SPEAK test.