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10/20/2025Our planet is undergoing a rapid change process that is presenting humanity with ever greater challenges. Climate change, species extinction, growing population pressure, and global water scarcity are just a few examples. On the other hand, innovations and a digitally connected world provide the current generation with more tools than ever before to address these challenges. Addressing them requires insights from different perspectives, so as to be able to understand the complexity of the problems at hand and to achieve important sustainability goals. Geography addresses this wide range of topics and uses both natural and social science perspectives and methods. The aim is to understand the Earth system as a whole, to analyze problems, and to develop solutions. Different geographical disciplines complement each other: Physical geography concentrates primarily on natural science research approaches and methods, such as in climatology, geomorphology, and geoecology. Anthropogeography takes an economic-social science perspective, such as in commercial geography, transport geography, urban geography, and population geography. The RWTH degree program is structured accordingly: It consists of components from physical geography, anthropogeography, geographical methods, and regional geography. Starting in the fourth semester the curriculum offers students the opportunity to specialize within a geographic subdiscipline. Students select ? based on their personal interest ? one of the excursion destinations offered and two specialization modules starting in the fifth semester. A unique selling point of the RWTH geography program is that it offers many connections to other disciplines. The course catalogue, from which students choose a minor and a core elective module starting in the third semester, is unique and offers a broad range of specializations not available in this breadth at other universities. Students can choose from a unique variety of subjects in geography or other disciplines, including waste management and environmental engineering, business administration, biology, geosciences, geodetics, georisks, social sciences, computer science, mathematics, resources management, urban water management, urban planning, transport and spatial planning, and economics. Another special feature of the RWTH degree program is its application of theory into practice: the concept behind the course of study is to offer an extraordinarily elaborate and comprehensive methodological training - from scientific data collection on site to evaluating the results.
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Public
Germany
Aachen
North Rhine-Westphalia
No
6 Semester
Winter
180 ECTS
Full Time
General Requirement: https://www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/root/studium/vor-dem-studium/zugangsvoraussetzungen/~zwyn/sprachkenntnisse/?lidx=1
Not required
Abitur or equivalent HZB Further Information:; Proficiency in German Further Information:
Tuition Fee (Non-EU): Freeper Semester
Tuition Fee (EU): Freeper Semester
Semester Contribution: 298.08
Winter: EU - 20/10 Non-EU - 20/10
ApplicationEndDate: 20 October 2025 at UTC
ApplicationEndDateNonEU: 20 October 2025 at UTC