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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.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.