Bachelor of Geospatial Science (Honours)

Program Overview

This program prepares students for careers in geospatial technologies, including land use planning, crime analysis, disease monitoring, transportation management, and disaster response. Graduates can pursue roles as cartographers, photogrammetrists, GIS analysts, and geodists, with over 90% employed within three months of completing the degree.

Program Outline

Careers:

• More than 90% of graduates are employed within three months of completing the degree.
• Graduates can work in diverse roles that:
• manage and plan land use systems in local government
• map and analyze crime patterns with the police
• build systems for monitoring the spread of infectious disease
• manage transportation networks
• perform utility mapping and spatial analysis
• monitor natural resources
• manage and map coastal zones
• perform disaster informatics for disaster risk reduction and response
• perform weather forecasting.
• Graduates can pursue careers in cartography, mapping, surveying, measurement and geographical visualization:
• Cartographer - interpret, collect and measure geographic data
• Photogrammetrist - use satellite images, aerial photographs and light imaging detection to create models of the Earth’s surface and its features to help produce maps
• GIS Analyst - create spatial data sets, prepare maps and maintain databases
• Geodisist - measure and monitor the earth to determine the exact coordinates of a point.