The Department is a lively, talented, and congenial community devoted to nurturing students, serving their intellectual passions and vocational goals, and providing them the best learning environment possible—all while advancing the frontiers of geographic knowledge.

Students work alongside award-winning and renowned scholar-teachers who place great value on field work, international travel and scholarship, mapping and location analysis, the natural environment and sustainable development, state of the art technology and data analysis (quantitative and qualitative), community engagement, responsible planning, and social justice. Our faculty, students, and staff hail from a diversity of backgrounds, cultures and world regions, and we welcome prospective students from all walks of life and disciplines. After you check out the web page, consider visiting the Department at the Burchfiel Geography Building, built for us in 2000 and centrally located on campus.

Geography at the University of Tennessee offers students an opportunity to address a number of questions that revolve around understanding environmental, technological, and social change.