Geography focuses on the investigation of the distribution of natural and human-created phenomena over the earth’s surface. Geographers are interested in documenting where things are, and in trying to explain and analyze geographic distributions.
Planning involves working to further the welfare of people and the communities that they live in by creating sustainable, equitable, efficient, and aesthetically-pleasing living environments in the present and future. Planners work in various settings and at many different scales—from rural areas to very large cities, as well as suburbs and resort areas. In a nutshell, planning involves integrating the desires of a community’s citizens with professional methods of analyzing population trends, economic patterns and infrastructure availability to develop a sustainable plan for future development.
More than 95 percent of our graduates over the last five years have been placed in graduate programs or found jobs in business and industry, as environmental professionals, municipal planners, with regional and state agencies, in federal government, as social science educators, and with engineering firms.
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