Career Options
Options for further study at JLU
The following consecutive Master's degree is offered by JLU:
- Economic Geography, mobility and Spatial Development Policy (MSc)
- Human Species - Climate - Environment (MSc)
Career options / Job market
The professional prospects of Bachelors students: it must be admitted that at present the situation is still problematic because the Bachelors degree is still relatively young and the job market is still firmly established in its present form. For now, typical areas of employment for geographers must be sought out from the experience of diploma graduates.
To date the main employers have been, on the one hand, the various levels of the public service and, on the other, various firms in the spectrum of private enterprise (see survey). Added to this there are many geographers working independently in the areas listed below. And finally, there is another large area namely teaching at one of the various levels of education.
Typical working areas in the public service:
- construction management
- county planning
- land-use planning
- regional planning
- city planning
- traffic planning
- logistics
- real-estate industry
- protection of nature
- ecological research, protection strategic
- environmental assessment
- environmental planning
- economic promotion
- developmental research
- location research
- development planning
- universities
- tourism
- information bases etc.
- libraries and archivals
- adult vocational training
- supply and waste disposal
- landscape planning
- public relations activities
Working in private industry or independently, geographers are active in the following areas, for example:
- publication of atlases and schoolbooks
- vocational training
- consulting
- waste disposal companies
- retail/location planning
- business chains (all sectors)
- specialized publishing houses
- remote sensing
- tourism
- radio and television
- free planning offices
- strategic environmental assessment
- chambers of commerce/associations
- encyclopedia publishing houses
- market research
- marketing/logistics
- oil businesses
- public relations
- planning and consulting companies
- press
- data bases
Detailed Information about professional fields, potential areas and possibilities of employment is published by the Deutsche Verband für Angewandte Geographie (German applied geography association).