Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science and Technology

The Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS&T) provides students with in-depth training and education in GIS. Students with different backgrounds (e.g., biologyecology, geography, earth sciences, meteorology, engineering, social science, public health and health analytics, data science, and computer science) are exposed to knowledge in cutting-edge geospatial theory, methods, and technologies, including GIS, spatial data analytics, geoAI, cartography, and geovisualization, and remote sensing. Students develop geospatial skills that are of great help in their domain-specific problem-solving using state-of-the-art GIS. The GIS training that students receive from the graduate certificate program makes them highly competitive in their future careers in industry and in academia.

Admission to the Graduate School requires a student to show evidence of successful completion of a U.S. bachelor’s degree program or its foreign equivalent from a regionally accredited (in the U.S.) or an officially recognized/approved or accredited institution abroad. An applicant’s academic credentials, if earned outside of the U.S., are reviewed for the purpose of assessing institutional accreditation, as well as the U.S. equivalency of the degree and grades.