Geography & Cartography at Hunter College

If you plan to study geography & cartography, take a look at what Hunter College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Hunter is located in New York, New York and approximately 24,052 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Geography & Cartography section at the bottom of this page.

Hunter Geography & Cartography Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Geography
• Master’s Degree in Geography

Hunter Geography & Cartography Rankings

The geography major at Hunter is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Geography & Cartography. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Geography Student Demographics at Hunter

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the geography majors at Hunter College.

Hunter Geography & Cartography Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of geography bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women. The typical geography bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% women. So female students are more repesented at Hunter since its program graduates 24% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 51% more racial-ethnic minorities in its geography bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Hunter College with a bachelor's in geography.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	2
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Hunter Geography & Cartography Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 63% of geography master's degrees went to men and 38% went to women.

Of the students who received a geography master's degree from Hunter, 63% were white. This is below average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the geography master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 38% of degree recipients. That is 14% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Hunter College with a master's in geography.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Geography & Cartography

Geography & Cartography majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Hunter College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Geography	24
Geographic Information Science	2

Related Majors

• Archeology
• Anthropology
• Urban Studies
• Political Science & Government
• Economics

Careers That Geography Grads May Go Into

A degree in geography can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Hunter College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Managers	16,600	$124,160
Geography Professors	220	$90,390
Cartographers and Photogrammetrists	170	$78,780

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Beyond My Ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.