College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Geography
www.kent.edu/geography


Contact Information

Fully Offered

  • Delivery:
    • In person
  • Location:
    • Kent Campus

Example of Possible Careers*

Calibration technologists and technicians and engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters, all other

  • 2.1% slower than the average
  • 91,600 number of jobs
  • $64,190 potential earnings

Geographers

  • -1.2% decline
  • 1,600 number of jobs
  • $85,430 potential earnings

Geography teachers, postsecondary

  • 2.9% slower than the average
  • 4,800 number of jobs
  • $82,330 potential earnings

Surveying and mapping technicians

  • 0.7% little or no change
  • 58,400 number of jobs
  • $46,200 potential earnings

Cartographers and photogrammetrists

  • 4.5% about as fast as the average
  • 12,000 number of jobs
  • $68,380 potential earnings

Urban and regional planners

  • 11.0% much faster than the average
  • 39,700 number of jobs
  • $75,950 potential earnings

Social scientists and related workers, all other

  • 0.8% little or no change
  • 38,800 number of jobs
  • $87,260 potential earnings

Social science research assistants

  • 5.8% faster than the average
  • 40,100 number of jobs
  • $49,210 potential earnings

Social and community service managers

  • 17.0% much faster than the average
  • 175,500 number of jobs
  • $69,600 potential earnings

Natural sciences managers

  • 4.8% about as fast as the average
  • 71,400 number of jobs
  • $137,940 potential earnings

Forest and conservation technicians

  • 0.6% little or no change
  • 21,200 number of jobs
  • $38,940 potential earnings

Forest and conservation workers

  • -0.5% little or no change
  • 13,200 number of jobs
  • $30,640 potential earnings

Environmental scientists and specialists, including health

  • 7.8% faster than the average
  • 90,900 number of jobs
  • $73,230 potential earnings

Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers

  • 4.9% about as fast as the average
  • 31,800 number of jobs
  • $93,580 potential earnings

Community and social service specialists, all other

  • 11.7% much faster than the average
  • 105,200 number of jobs
  • $46,770 potential earnings

Area, ethnic, and cultural studies teachers, postsecondary

  • 4.9% about as fast as the average
  • 13,400 number of jobs
  • $78,840 potential earnings

*Note

Source of occupation titles and labor data is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook. Data comprises projected percent change in employment over the next 10 years; nation-wide employment numbers; and the yearly median wage at which half of the workers in the occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less.