Geography at University of Mary Washington

If you plan to study geography, take a look at what University of Mary Washington has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UMW is located in Fredericksburg, Virginia and approximately 4,293 students attend the school each year.

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

UMW Geography Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Geography

UMW Geography Rankings

The geography major at UMW is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Geography. 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 UMW

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the geography majors at University of Mary Washington.

UMW Geography Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 31% of geography bachelor's degrees went to men and 69% went to women. The typical geography bachelor's degree program is made up of only 44% women. So female students are more repesented at UMW since its program graduates 24% more women than average.

About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in geography at UMW are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Geographic Information Science

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 VA, the home state for University of Mary Washington.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Managers	17,280	$134,500

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 Morgan Riley under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.