The Geographic Information Science graduate program provides students with high quality training in a cutting edge field combining geography, information science, statistics, remote sensing and environmental studies. The wide diversity of faculty expertise in the program enables students to pursue their own research interests by applying geospatial technologies (e.g. GIS, spatial statistics, cartography, unmanned aerial systems remote sensing) to surface hydrology, atmospheric processes, cultural and natural resource management, demography, historical change, location analysis, transportation/land use planning and regional economics. Program graduates are highly competitive in the job market, and most past graduates obtained high quality jobs upon graduation or continued on to pursue a Ph.D. The M.S. in GISci is a program available either through a Plan A option (thesis) or Plan B option (non-thesis). The Plan A option requires students to propose, complete, and defend an MS Thesis, while Plan B requires students to propose, complete and defend a research project and complete an additional course. For both options, a total of 33 graduate credit hours are required to graduate, of which 15 credits have to be earned from courses at the 600 level or above. More detailed information is available in the Department office.