Graduate Funding and Other Resources

Graduate Assistantships

The Department of Geographic and Environmental Sciences offers a limited number of graduate assistantship (GA) positions for incoming students each year. These are typically only available for Fall semester applicants. GA positions include a full-time tuition remission, health insurance and a monthly stipend. GA’s are employed on 10-month contracts from August-May for a maximum of two years, and must be enrolled full-time during this period. Responsibilities can include working with department faculty on research projects and serving as teaching assistants or instructors-of-record for department courses. Applicants interested in being considered for a GA position must indicate this on their personal statement as part of their application.

Additional research assistantships may also be available via funded research projects through individual faculty members. 

Other sources of financial aid are also available to qualifying applicants via the Graduate School.

Graduate Student Handbook

This handbook contains a description of our program and serves as a guide to our basic policies and procedures so that you will have a working knowledge of your opportunities, obligations, and responsibilities as an applicant or member of our Applied Geography program.

Click here for the Graduate Student Handbook

 Graduate Course Descriptions

Students in the MS Applied Geography program may enroll in graduate level Geography (GEOG) and Environmental Sciences (ENVS) courses. Up to six hours graduate electives may be taken in other programs. A description of all graduate level courses by program may be found here.

Graduate Thesis Archive

The University of Louisville’s Ekstrom Library maintains a partial digital collection of thesis research for former graduate students in the Applied Geography program, which may be accessed here.