Overview
The Geography Graduate Student Association at York University has an active social program and promotes the interests of Geography graduates in the University.
Features
- You’ll join a group of 65 students supervised by more than 30 professors whose area of expertise is linked to research institutes including the City Institute, Global Labour Research Center, the Centre for Refugee Studies, the Centre for Feminist Research, York Centre for Asian Research, and the Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean.
- All of our graduate student receive financial support in the form of assistantships or scholarships. Most of our students also receive support for their fieldwork from graduate faculty members' research grants.
Programme Structure
Curriculum:
- Areas of interest include biogeography, migration, wetlands, political ecology, global connections, place and identity, GIS and remote sensing, feminist geography, urbanism, northern environments, international development, political economy, transnationalism, and labour.
- The spirit of sustainability and social justice animates the research work conducted by the community of graduate faculty and current students.
- The Geography Graduate Student Association has an active social program and promotes the interests of Geography graduates in the University.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Disciplines
Geography View 29 other PhDs in Geography in CanadaAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- 3 recommendation(s)
- Statement of research interests (500 words)
- Major paper or thesis chapter (30-page maximum)
- Resumé or CV
Tuition Fee
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International
12000 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 6000 CAD per semester during 36 months. -
National
2870 CAD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1435 CAD per semester during 36 months.
Living costs for Toronto
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Funding
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Scholarships Information
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