Geographic Information Science and Technology - University of Southern California Online

Geographic Information Science and Technology from University of Southern California Online is a Online Master Geography degree that prepares you for a Science career. The USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences is the largest and oldest of the USC schools and is the academic heart of USC. USC Dornsife offers a wide variety of degrees and professional certificates, including two innovative programs in Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST): the GIST Master of Science and the GIST Graduate Certificate Program. These GIST graduate programs are offered in an online format to mesh with the demanding schedules of working professionals and resident USC graduate students for whom campus-based studies are not an option. In the past decade, Geographic Information Science (GIS) has grown exponentially. GIS are in use throughout the world and the demand for professionals trained in their use is expanding in the United States, Canada, much of Europe and parts of Asia. Currently, the number of people with expertise in GIS cannot possibly meet the surge coming from government, non-profits and the private marketplace. Recognizing this demand, USC Dornsife established the USC GIS Research Laboratory in 1996. It was designed to support the research needs of USC faculty and the GIS needs of graduate students. In 1998, USC Dornsife developed an online graduate certificate program in GIS as a collaborative enterprise with the UNIGIS International Network (www.unigis.net). The USC Dornsife GIST graduate certificate was one of the first online GIS graduate programs in the country. Today it remains one of the few online programs directly linked to an active GIS research enterprise. The recently-launched USC Master of Science degree meets the needs of today's researchers and professionals, equipping them with the fundamental science and skills to cope with increasing data complexity and more sophisticated applications. Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Geography courses.