Geography

Applicants for the Ph.D. in geography program must meet the following degree-specific admission requirements:

• Education level: Bachelor's
• GPA: 3.0
• GRE: No
• TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo: 79/6.5/115 (for applicants whose education was completed in countries where English is not an official language)
• Number of references: Three
• Other requirements: No

Program availability

• Semester intake: Fall and Spring
  • Eligible for international admission
• Deadlines: General application deadlines

Visit Graduate Admissions to learn more and start your application.

Earth and Spatial Sciences contact: Thomas Williams; tomw@uidaho.edu

Graduate Admissions contact: graduateadmissions@uidaho.edu, 208-885-4001

Find Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences faculty advisor contacts.

To learn about various ways to fund your graduate degree, check out Graduate Funding.

For detailed information about the cost of attendance, visit Financial Aid.

Beginning Fall 2026, Ph.D. students appointed as Teaching Assistants will receive an annual support package that includes:

• Base stipend: $18,985.20 for the 9-month academic year
• In-state tuition: fully covered by the program
• Out-of-state tuition: waived for non-resident students
• Health insurance: fully covered
• Summer support: additional scholarship up to $8,000, depending on funding availability

Real-world experience

Many of your courses will include a lab, and you’ll also have opportunities to contribute to faculty research projects, including:

• Polar meteorology and remote sensing in arctic environments
• Regional climate change in the western United States
• Forest disturbances and environmental change
• Human adaptation to climate change in high latitudes
• Natural resource applications of GIS in quantifying carbon fluxes

This degree could be a good fit if you:

• Have experience using geospatial information technologies
• Want to pursue a management-level policy, planning or research-oriented position in geographic information science
• Want to lead research in the field
• Are interested in geography and related disciplines like natural resource management, geology, engineering, planning and business marketing

Related clubs and organizations

• Geo Club
• Super Group
• Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA)