Where Will You Make Your Impact?
Understand The World. Shape Your Future.
From climate resilience to global justice, NUS Geographers learn from today’s problems to design tomorrow’s solutions. Through an interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates physical and human geography, students examine real-world challenges across local, regional, and global contexts. Grounded in research and practice, NUS Geography equips learners with the critical and applied skills needed to shape more equitable and resilient futures.
Climate Change
How do we respond to a warming world?
Analyse climate impacts and adaptation strategies to drive solutions in policy, planning, and environmental consultancy.
Sustainable Development
How can we live well on a damaged planet?
Evaluate and design pathways for balancing growth, equity, and environment to shape sustainable futures across public and private sectors.
Globalisation & Inequality
Is there hope for the future?
Examine how global flows of power, trade, and culture create uneven geographies, opening pathways into public policy, urban and corporate consultancy.
Our Everyday Worlds
How do we create meaningful worlds for ourselves and others?
Explore how identities, practices, and cultures shape everyday spaces and places, building skills for careers in planning, community engagement, marketing and project management.
Geospatial Intelligence
Want to see the world in 4D?
Apply spatial analysis, mapping, and data visualisation to solve real-world challenges in industry, government, and academia.
The Geographical Sciences
Want to shape the world, literally?
Study Earth’s dynamic systems to build skills in analysis and field research, leading to careers in environmental consultancy, resource management and conservation, and sustainability planning.
Explore Our Programmes
News & Happenings
NUS Geography Now
When seniors live alone, it doesn’t mean they are lonely: Professor Elaine Ho and Associate Professor Feng Chen-Chieh, together with Associate Professor Vincent Chua (Department of Sociology & Anthropology), challenge the idea that solo living equates to social isolation.
This is an extension of an earlier op-ed, “Seniors are taking the kampung spirit beyond the neighbourhood”, where they highlight how older adults actively cultivate connection, care, and community in spatially dispersed ways.
Upcoming Events
Field Studies 2026 - Official Registrations Open!
GE3230A is a 5-week, 8-unit overseas field course conducted in Southeast Asia during Special Term 1 (12 May - 18 June 2026). Students interested in enrolling can officially register for the course via the link below.
Seminar
Radical Care-work, Critical Pedagogy and the Livable City: Revisiting the History of Urban Squatting in West Berlin, 1968-1977, by Professor Alex Vasudevan, School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford on Monday 16 March 2026, 9.30am, Geography Seminar Room, AS2 #03-02.
NUS Open House 2024 Attracts more than 8.4m visitors as Screens and Campuses Buzz with Action
Open House 2024 returned to an enthusiastic reception as visitors turned up in force to experience one of NUS’ largest events of the year. Held in a hybrid format from 2 to 9 March 2024 and pulled together by the efforts of 2,674 faculty, staff, students and alumni, the event attracted more than 8.4 million visitors – up from 7.7 million in 2023 – as they explored the comprehensive showcase of what NUS has to offer both online and in-person.
Singaporean Women Living in China: The Uneven Burdens of Middle-class Transnational Caregiving
International Women’s Day is commemorated annually on 8 March. This celebration empowers women by making their struggles visible, thus advocating for greater equality of the sexes.‘Singaporean Women Living in China: The Uneven Burdens of Middle-class Transnational Caregiving’ (Asian Studies Review, 2022) by Dr Sylvia Ang (Monash University), Associate Professor Thang Leng Leng (NUS Japanese Studies …
A Blue Carbon Framework for Singapore’s National Climate Change Policy (BlueCarbonSG)
Mangroves, seagrasses, and saltmarshes are termed ‘blue carbon’ ecosystems because of their potential to remove greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere and store them in the vegetation and soils, which is effective in tackling climate change. Blue carbon ecosystems can remove and store greenhouse gas emissions at rates several times greater than terrestrial ecosystems such …
A Blue Carbon Framework for Singapore’s National Climate Change Policy (BlueCarbonSG) Read More »