Programme profile
The Master's degree programme in Geography is a two-year long advanced study in geography. The study provides the students with comprehensive training in geography's approaches to social geographical and /or natural geographical phenomena.

The objective of this programme is to provide a deeper understanding of geographical problems and methods, knowledge to the theoretical debate within the discipline, and training in the use of geographical working techniques. In your first year of study, you must take some elective and some compulsory courses, at the same time as planning your master's thesis and being assigned an academic supervisor. The second year is devoted to the work on your thesis.

Specializations
In this programme you may specialize within one of our related priority areas, alternatively you may find a topic which covers two or more fields. The special qualifications our subject teachers hold in these areas are unique for NTNU.

This study suits those who care about environmental issues, the interaction between humans and the environment, and aspects relating to space in the social development, those who are curious of how different social geographical and/or natural geographical processes affect our surroundings, those who seek a deeper understanding of the connections in our own daily lives, the society we live in and the world of which we are a part, those who are interested in relations between the local, the regional and the global, and those who like travelling and want the optimal basis for interpreting and understanding the landscape, society and culture in the areas they visit.

The Master’s programme will provide a deeper understanding of geographical approaches and methods, knowledge of the theoretical discussion within the discipline, and training in the use of geographical techniques. Students can specialize according to their interests through both their dissertation and the course curriculum.