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Bachelor of Arts in Geographic Information Science University of Regina, Canada
CAD 20500
Annual Tuition Fee
CAD 100
Application Fee
48 months
Duration
6.5
IELTS
83
TOEFL
70%
Min GPA
Program Overview
The Bachelor of Geographic Information Science (B.GISc) is an innovative program offered by the Department of Geography & Environmental Studies at the University of Regina. The Bachelor of Geographic Information Science is a unique designation that is not offered in this format anywhere else in North America.
Geographic Information Science (GIScience) is the intellectual understanding behind the development and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS are used by resource exploration companies to locate areas of new reserves, power utilities to plan new power line routes, municipalities to manage their infrastructure, school boards to optimize school bus routing, health districts to examine the spread of infectious diseases, police departments to identify crime hot spots, and businesses to document the geographic distribution and demographics of their customers.
Some of the questions asked in GIScience are:
- What are the implications of using latitude and longitude, a postal code, or a street address to locate a crime scene?
- How do you encode the flight pattern of a butterfly in a computer?
- Is there a spatial correlation between diabetes and socio-economic status?
GIScience is an emerging academic discipline and is being used throughout the world to solve problems in multiple disciplines:
- Biologists use GIS to map the nesting and foraging habitats of endangered wildlife. Environmental engineers have built hydraulic models into GIS to forecast peak river flow conditions.
- Crime mapping with GIS has revolutionized the work done by justice and police professionals.
- Social planners and social workers use GIS to optimize the delivery of social services to segments of the population in most need.
- Business analysts enter data on customer purchasing patterns, demographic trends, and the location of competitors into a GIS to identify ideal locations to establish new business enterprises.
- Health professionals use GIS to track the spread of infectious diseases and to search for the social and environmental conduits along which the viruses travel the fastest.
Additional Information
Program Level 4-Year Bachelor's Degree
College/University Processing Time 56 Days
Program Format Full-Time
Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP)
General Admission Requirement
- IELTS
- Minimum Overall Score - 6.5 - With No Band Less Than - 6
- TOEFL
- Minimum Overall Score - 83 - With no score less than - 20
- PTE
- Minimum Overall Score - 59 - With no score less than - 59
- DUOLINGO
- Minimum Overall Score - 120.0 Minimum Literacy - 105.0 Minimum Comprehension - 105.0 Minimum Conversation - 105.0 Minimum Production - 90.0
Academic Requirement
- Minimum Level of Education Required: To be accepted into this program, applicants must have Grade 12 / High School Diploma or equivalent including the following required course(s):
- One Language Arts course
- Two Language, Math, Science, or Social Science courses
- One additional course in an approved academic subject
- Note: courses listed above must be at the grade 12 level (or equivalent).
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