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• Department of Geography
• Burnside Hall
• 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Room 705
• Montreal, QC H3A 2K6
• Canada

• Telephone: 514-398-4111
• Fax: 514-398-7437
• Email: grad.geog [at] mcgill.ca
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The Department of Geography offers a research and thesis-based graduate program leading to a Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Science (M.Sc.), and a doctorate (Ph.D.). In its scope, our program includes the opportunity to conduct field-based studies in both the natural (i.e., biophysical) and the social sciences. Thematic areas of study include Political, Urban, Economic and Health Geography, Environment and Human Development, Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing, Land Surface Processes, Earth Systems Science, and Environmental Management. Geography houses the Hitschfield Geographic Information Centre, maintains the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ High Arctic Research Station (Axel Heiburg Island, Nunavut Territory) and the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Sub-Arctic Research Station (Schefferville, Québec), and has strong ties with ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ’s School of the Environment and the Centre for Climate and Global Change Research. Faculty and students conduct research in fields as diverse as climate change impacts, periglacial geomorphology, and forest resource history in regions ranging from the Arctic to Southeast Asia and Latin America.

³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Northern Research Stations

The ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Sub-Arctic Research Station is located at Schefferville, in the centre of Quebec-Labrador. Facilities exist for research in most areas of physical and some areas of human geography in the subarctic.

³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ also operates a field station at Expedition Fiord on Axel Heiberg in the High Arctic. Facilities are limited to a small lab and dorm building and cookhouse. Research activities focus on the glacial and geological. For additional information on these stations, contact the Scientific Director, Wayne Pollard, Department of Geography.

Centre for Climate and Global Change Research

The Department of Geography, with the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Departments of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Economics, Natural Resource Sciences, and several departments from the Université du Québec à Montréal and Université de Montréal developed a collaborative research centre that examines climate and global change. Through this centre there are graduate opportunities.

For more information contact Professor Nigel Roulet, Director, Centre for Climate and Global Change, ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ.

Being both a natural and a social science, geography provides a unique opportunity to obtain a broad exposure to modes of analyzing the many environmental and situational problems of contemporary society. Because of this, a geography degree is a fantastic opportunity to get a career in a diverse range of fields. Our students have gone on to become United Nations field researchers in Laos, environmental consultants in Toronto, science teachers in the U.S., geography professors in many parts of the world, UNHCR volunteers in Malaysia, and policy analysts, as well as health and social policy researchers in Montreal…the list goes on! If you're on Facebook, look for ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Geography Alumni or visit our website to learn more about the advantages of having a geography degree from ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ!

Master’s degrees in both the physical (M.Sc.) and social (M.A.) sciences are offered by Geography. The core of both programs for all students is field-based research supervised by a faculty member culminating in a thesis. The core program consists of the thesis component (30 credits) and required (3) and complementary (12) graduate (500- or 600-level) courses.

Geography also offers in association with other ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ departments and programs a number of M.A. and M.Sc. options that students may choose to follow. Students must pass the courses specified for their program, attend such additional courses as the Chair and the student's thesis supervisor think fit, and submit a thesis in an appropriate area of geographical inquiry approved by the adviser.

Master of Arts (M.A.) Programs in Geography

Master of Science (M.Sc.) Programs in Geography

Ph.D. Programs in Geography