Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science

Geographic Information Science (GIScience or GISci) includes the existing technologies and research areas of geographic information systems (GIS), cartography, remote sensing, photogrammetry, surveying (also termed geomatics in the U.S.), and quantitative spatial analysis. GIScience therefore addresses fundamental issues in the use of digital technology to handle geographic information, namely, information about places, activities, and phenomena on and near the surface of the Earth that are stored in maps or images.

GIScience includes questions of data structures, analysis, accuracy, meaning, cognition, visualization, and many more, and thus overlaps with the domains of many traditional disciplines (e.g., Earth science, mathematics, computer science, physics, cognitive science, and ethics). However, GIScience is not central to any of these, representing instead a new kind of scientific collaborative that is defined by researchers from many distinct backgrounds working together on particular sets of interrelated problems.

A four-year baccalaureate degree or international equivalent a professional degree or an appropriate US Canadian alternative degree from an regionally accredited US or recognized International college or university and a 45quarter credit equivalent graduate degree from a regionally accredited US or recognized International college or university with a cumulative B average equivalent 3.00 on a US 4.00 grading scale on the most recent graduate degree.
TOEFL PBT - 550, TOEFL IBT - 80, IELTS - 6.5