Foreword
The Doctoral Study Program in Geography 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. This program is part of the Postgraduate Program at the Faculty of Geography, Universitas Gadjah Mada. The Doctoral Study Program in Geography is relevant considering the increasing problem of resources, both 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 A-rank accreditation based on the National Accreditation Board for Higher Education (BAN-PT) Decree No. 5241/SK /BAN-PT/Akred/PT/XII/2017, effective from December 27 2017, to December 27 2022. | Accreditation Certificate | 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, Doctoral Study Program in Geography, 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
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 Geography:
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.
