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Students study geography in undergraduate, graduate and PhD programs from public and private universities in America. US universities are considered one of the best in teaching geography - universities offer more than 130 full-time undergraduate and graduate programs in this area. Many American university courses rank internationally as the best.
Geography graduates find jobs in education, environmental studies, public and private entrepreneurship. According to statistics, about 25% of geographers find work in the US public sector.
In-demand specialties:
- geographic analyst
- cartographer
- forestry ecologist
- climatologist
- land management specialist
- soil conservation specialist
- publisher of maps, atlases, textbooks and encyclopedias.
Best geography universities in USA 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 2 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 3 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 4 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 5 | The Ohio State University |
| 6 | University of Washington |
| 7 | New York University (NYU) |
| 8 | Arizona State University |
| 9 | Cornell University |
| 10 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 11 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 12 | University of Chicago |
| 13 | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 14 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 15 | University of Minnesota (System) |
| 16 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 17 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 18 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 19 | University of Kentucky |
| 20 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 21 | Boston University |
| 22 | Brown University |
| 23 | City University of New York |
| 24 | Clark University |
| 25 | Dartmouth College |
| 26 | Georgetown University |
| 27 | Michigan State University |
| 28 | Texas A&M University |
| 29 | The University of Arizona |
| 30 | University at Buffalo SUNY |
| 31 | University of California, Davis |
| 32 | University of Florida |
| 33 | Colorado State University |
| 34 | George Washington University |
| 35 | Indiana University Bloomington |
| 36 | Oregon State University |
| 37 | Rutgers University鈥揘ew Brunswick |
| 38 | Syracuse University |
| 39 | The University of Georgia |
| 40 | University of California, Irvine |
