We Want to Hear From You
Do you have a new address, a new job, a new career accomplishment, or some other good news that you would like to share with us? We want to make sure we have your most recent contact information.
Please fill out the alumni update form, and browse our Alumni Association site for more information about the benefits available to you as one of our valued alumni.
If you don’t already have an established UWM Alumni online account, you will need your alumni ID number to create one. Your ID number is on the back of your alumni magazine or you can request your ID at alumni@uwm.edu.
Engage with UWM
Your UWM connection makes you an essential part of the university’s continued success. It also creates valuable opportunities for you. That’s why we encourage you to stay engaged with UWM in whatever way works best for you.
You can get involved and stay connected with UWM through in-person activities and online channels. You’re invited to attend educational and social gatherings, travel with the UWM Alumni Association, cheer on the Milwaukee Panthers athletics teams, mentor current students and connect with alumni.
Panthers Connect
Participate in the mentoring and networking programs UWM has to offer to gain valuable career insights, build professional connections, and explore opportunities in your field of interest.
Since the inception of the graduate program in 1963, the geography department has produced scholars, scientists, cartographers, urban planners and more. We couldn’t be more proud of our graduates and the success they are having. No matter what year you graduated, we want to know what you are doing and help facilitate connections between and among our alumni, our faculty and our current students.
Most of the doctoral students who have graduated from the UWM’s Department of Geography since Fall 2004 are currently in academic positions. The academic institutions where our graduates hold tenure-track positions include but are not limited to the following:
- Binghamton University-The State University of New York
- Heidelberg University (Germany)
- Missouri State University
- Minnesota State University
- Montclair State University
- Newcastle University (UK)
- Ohio University
- Ryerson University (Canada)
- Sam Houston State University
- University of Connecticut
- University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
- University of Houston–Clear Lake
- University of Kentucky
- University of Michigan–Flint
- University of Wisconsin–Marinette
- University of Wisconsin–Whitewater
The majority of our master’s students pursue further graduate study or find professional employment after graduation. Organizations that hired our recent graduates include but are not limited to the following:
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee
- City of Milwaukee
- Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
- Educators Credit Union
- Independent Care Health Plan
- International Institute of Wisconsin
- Milwaukee County Transit Systems
- Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
- Pinellas County, Florida
- School of Public Health, UW-Milwaukee
- Sixteenth Street Community Health Center
- Southeast Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
- U.S. Forest Service
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Our bachelor’s degree students enter all different types of career paths and graduate programs with their broad-based geography degree. See our Career Resources and Job Outcomes page for more information.