2012 Virtual Geography Convention: Top Twenty Geography Ph.D. Programs in the United States

Welcome to the kick-off of the 2012 Virtual Geography Convention!  If you have a presentation or blog post you wished published please contact me at catholicgauze [at] gmail [dot] com!

Justin Holman, CEO of TerraSeer and blogger at Geographical Perspectives, provided a link to his article and thoughts on the National Research Council's survey of doctoral programs in geography.  Be sure to read his post and other interesting posts on his blog.

According to the National Research Council, the following are the top 20 doctoral geography programs in the United States:

Rank	Program	Website
1	Boston University	http://geography.bu.edu/
2	University of Colorado at Boulder	http://www.colorado.edu/geography/
3	University of Maryland College Park	http://www.geog.umd.edu/
4	University of California – Los Angeles	http://www.geog.ucla.edu/
5	Penn State University	http://www.geog.psu.edu/grad/
6	University of Oregon	http://geography.uoregon.edu/
7	Clark University	http://www.clarku.edu/geography
8	University of South Carolina – Columbia	http://www.cas.sc.edu/geog/
9	University of California – Santa Barbara	http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/
10	University of Wisconsin – Madison	http://www.geography.wisc.edu
11	Ohio State University	http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/
12	Arizona State University	http://geography.asu.edu/
13	University of California – Davis	http://ggg.ucdavis.edu
14	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	http://www.geog.uiuc.edu
15	University of Kentucky	http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geography/
16	University of Southern California	http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/
17	University of Arizona	http://geog.arizona.edu
18	Oregon State University	http://www.geo.oregonstate.edu
19	Syracuse University	http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/geo
20	State University of New York at Buffalo	http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/