About Us
The Department of Geography at Michigan State University is one of 12 degree-granting units in the College of Social Science. Housed in the Geography Building, the Department has over 30 faculty, 70 graduate students, 80 undergraduate majors, and 130 undergraduate minors. Faculty and student research centers on such topics as people-environment relationships, climate, geographic information science, soils-geomorphology, urban structure, and global change. The spatial extent of these research interests range from local to global in such places as Kenya, Brazil, the Great Lakes, China, and Michigan.
The Department offers Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Geography and Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Geographic Information Science with a wide range of courses and state-of-the-art facilities. The Department also houses the Remote Sensing and GIS Research and Outreach Services unit that conducts numerous contract and grant activities. A general profile of the Department and statement of long-range goals can be found in the 2004 Strategic Plan.
For more information, please contact any of the following:
Dr. Richard Groop - Department Chairperson
Dr. Antoinette WinklerPrins - Graduate Program Coordinator
Ms Sharon Ruggles - Graduate Secretary
Ms Ellen White - Undergraduate Advisor