Director's Message

The Geographic Information Science and Technology Master of Science and Graduate Certificate Programs at the University of Southern California are designed to provide you with state-of-the-art knowledge and skills needed to support your personal career goals and intellectual growth.

The individual courses that make up these programs incorporate multiple curricular pathways tailored to the increasingly diverse backgrounds, occupations and applications that rely on geospatial technologies.

Our goal is to educate and train all those in the private, public and non-profit sectors whose daily work activities would benefit from the use of spatial thinking and the supporting geospatial technologies. Individuals with geospatial skills are in steadily increasing demand in the emergency management, environmental management, food production, intelligence, public safety, real estate, telecommunications and utility sectors, among other fields. The U.S. Department of Labor recently identified geospatial as one of the three most important emerging and evolving fields of study and employment growth over the next two or three decades.

By enrolling in our programs, you will engage with experts who will extend your knowledge of both the core science and real world applications required to tackle the challenges and opportunities in government and industry.

I wish you the very best in this new adventure.

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Dr. John P. Wilson
Director, USC Geographic Information Science and Technology Programs