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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 | Harvard University |
| 2 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 3 | Stanford University |
| 4 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 5 | Yale University |
| 6 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 7 | University of Chicago |
| 8 | New York University (NYU) |
| 9 | Cornell University |
| 10 | University of Washington |
| 11 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 12 | Arizona State University |
| 13 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 14 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 15 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 16 | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 17 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities |
| 18 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 19 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 20 | Boston University |
| 21 | Brown University |
| 22 | Georgetown University |
| 23 | Indiana University Bloomington |
| 24 | Michigan State University |
| 25 | The Ohio State University |
| 26 | The University of Arizona |
| 27 | University of California, Davis |
| 28 | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| 29 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 30 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 31 | City University of New York |
| 32 | Dartmouth College |
| 33 | George Washington University |
| 34 | Syracuse University |
| 35 | Texas A&M University |
| 36 | University of California, Irvine |
| 37 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 38 | University of Kentucky |
| 39 | Rutgers University–New Brunswick |
| 40 | The University of Georgia |
