Foreword
The Doctoral Study Program in Geographical Sciences was established on September 20, 1993, based on the Decree of the Director-General of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia Number 680/DIKTI/Kep/1993 regarding the Granting of Permits for the Implementation of Master’s and Doctoral Study Programs at Gadjah Mada University, dated September 29, 1993. The decree for the establishment permit of this study program was renewed by the Decision of the Director General of Higher Education, Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Indonesia, Number 153/DIKTI/Kep/2007, concerning the Structuring and Reaffirmation of the Permit for Organizing Study Programs at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, dated September 21, 2007. This program is part of the Postgraduate Program at the Faculty of Geography, Universitas Gadjah Mada. The Doctoral Study Program in Geographical Sciences is relevant considering the increasing problem of natural and human resources. Besides, Geography expertise is also increasingly needed to implement regional autonomy and the expanding role of geospatial analysis in resource management, development planning, and its application in various fields.
National Accreditation
Universitas Gadjah Mada holds Unggul (excellent) rank accreditation based on the National Accreditation Board for Higher Education (BAN-PT) Decree No. 2006/SK/BANPT/Ak.Ppj/PT/XII/2022, dated December 13, 2022. This accreditation decree is effective from December 28, 2022, to December 28, 2027. | Accreditation Statement Letter
At the Program level, based on the assessment of the National Accreditation Board for Higher Education (BAN-PT) Number 3098/SK/BAN-PT/Ak-PPJ/D/V/2020, the Doctoral Study Program in Geographical Sciences, Graduate Program at the Faculty of Geography UGM holds A-rank accreditation effective from May 10, 2020, to May 10, 2025. | Accreditation Certificate | Accreditation Decision Letter
International Accreditation
The Doctoral Program in Geographical Sciences has received “full accreditation” internationally from the Akkreditierungsagentur für Studiengänge der Ingenieurwissenschaften, der Informatik, der Naturwissenschaften und der Mathematik (ASIIN), effective from December 5, 2024, to September 30, 2030. | Accreditation Certificate
Field of Study Scope
The field of Geography includes a broad scope of the study, from conceptual-theoretical to practical aspects related to the research of Geosphere phenomena on the Earth’s surface and their interactions. The geosphere phenomena – as a material object – include the lithosphere, pedosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and anthroposphere. Meanwhile, the formal object used is in the form of a geographic (spatial-setting) perspective or way of thinking about a phenomenon on Earth, both physical and social. This perspective includes spatial, ecological, and regional complex approaches.
The following is an indication of the scope of the research field* in the Doctoral Study Program in Geographical Sciences:
Development Geography: regional planning, spatial planning, transmigration, community empowerment, rural/urban geography, transportation geography, political geography, border area studies.
Human/Social Geography: population mobility, settlement, tourism geography, agricultural geography/agricultural ecology, economic geography.
Physical Geography: hydrology, water quality, land use, geology & geomorphology, meteorology & climatology, soil, coastal & marine, vegetation & forestry.
Geographic Information Science: remote sensing image analysis & modelling, spatial analysis & modelling / geographic information systems, spatial decision support systems, big spatial data analysis, analytical cartography, toponymy, participatory mapping.
Disaster Modelling: forest fires, volcanoes, floods, tsunamis, landslides, seismicity/tectonics, meteorological disasters, climate change.
Health geography, geo-archaeology
* Doctoral student research topics are often a combination of the above areas.