Geography & Environmental Planning

UMF helps build the skills to understand and address complex social and environmental challenges. Through critical thinking, spatial analysis, and GIS technology, students explore human–environment interactions, place, and spatial relationships while preparing for their careers.

Students choose a path in geography or environmental policy and planning, with options to focus their studies through concentrations such as Ecology, Environmental Health, Geosciences, Development & Economics, or Policy—or design their own. Hands-on fieldwork and lab experiences with faculty bring real-world issues into focus at local and global scales. Students also share their work through campus showcases and regional or national conferences, building professional experience and connections in the field.