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.
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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.
Neglected tropical diseases not neglected: Assoc Professor Wang Yi-Chen co-organized the Asian Neglected Tropical Disease Conference (NTDASIA 2025) with Professor Banchob Sripa, Tropical Disease Research Center, Khon Kaen University, Thailand.
Upcoming Events
Field Studies - Sharing Session
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 are encouraged to register their interest and attend the sharing session on 11 February 2026, 3.30–5.30pm at AS2-0302 (Seminar Room).
Seminar
Watching It Unfold: Emerging Live Digital Landscapes of Disaster, by Dr Simon Dickinson, University of Plymouth, Wednesday 21 January 2026, 3.30pm, Geography Earth Lab, AS2 #02-03.
Caring is Complicated
By 2030, 20 per cent or more of Singapore’s population will be aged 65 or above. Alumna Professor Elaine Ho Lynn-Ee (NUS Geography, ’02), who is the FASS Vice Dean of Research, surveys this seismic demographic shift to see what the future might hold for elderly and their caregivers.
NUS Research: High Mountain Asia Hydropower Systems Under Climate Change Threat
Climate change causes the recession and collapse of high mountain glaciers, posing compounding risks to downstream hydropower systems.
More Than Race: A Comparative Analysis of “New” Indian and Chinese Migration in Singapore
The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) was signed on 29 June 2005. It eased the flow of goods, services and investments between Singapore and India. As Indian immigrants flowed into Singapore, Singaporeans resisted the changing cultural dynamics and increase in job competition. Some even left spiteful social media comments to air their displeasure. Such incidences …