Human Geography

About this course

Human geography is the branch of geography concerned with how people, cultures, economies and societies organise themselves across space and place. Where physical geography studies landforms, climate and ecosystems, human geography examines urban and rural landscapes, migration and mobility, economic development, social inequality, geopolitics, and the ways in which places are shaped by and in turn shape the communities that inhabit them. It is a discipline that takes space and place seriously as organising principles of human experience, asking why things are where they are and what that means for people's lives. At Aberystwyth, this three-year full-time programme is taught in a department of geography with a long and distinguished history, one of the most established of its kind in the UK. The location itself is distinctive, a university town on the coast of mid-Wales that offers a pa

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 45% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 15% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Science, engineering and technology associate professionals · 5% of graduatescards →

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