MA in Geography and Geoinformatics Program

The program aims to:

1. Providing a distinguished education that focuses on cognitive and technical development in geography to qualify academic staff (teaching assistants) in the various geographical departments at Sana’a University and other Yemeni universities.
2. Providing students with scientific research skills and field studies of various geographical issues and environmental problems in a way that serves planning and sustainable development in the Republic of Yemen.
3. Preparing skilled and specialized national academic cadres (Master and Doctorate) to meet the needs of the local market and supply official institutions with competent cadres capable of investing in available and latent natural and human resources, developing development plans, and successfully managing development programs and projects.
4. Using scientific research methods, field and applied studies, methods of quantitative and non-quantitative measurements, data analysis of natural resources and human potential, and drawing research conclusions.
5. Providing the student with the ability to employ geographic information systems, remote sensing (geoinformatics) techniques, and producing maps to study the problems facing society in the geographical field and find possible solutions to them.
6. Developing awareness of the cultural heritage and urban developments of Yemen and the specificity of the environmental data of the Yemeni land, and linking it to contemporary global issues and the needs of society in the present and future.
7. Understanding the specificity of Yemen and its development experience to be acquainted with scientific developments and the world successful technical and professional experiences in the field of planning, development, management and investment of available and latent resources, and then emulate them while maintaining balance between originality and modernity.