<p>My name is Bridget, and I'm currently a senior in high school looking to apply to universities. Currently my two top options are Boston University and University of Texas in that order. However, I'm looking to enter into a geography program, and I'd like to know which schools in the nation have the best programs. I'm definitely more interested in Human Geography as well Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Also, I'm looking to enter an Urban Planning graduate program as well. </p>
<p>Thank you and I hope any of you members can give me an answer! :)</p>
<p>This site gives you rankings for geography PhD programs. If they have a great PhD program, they will most likely have a solid undergraduate program. I would personally question the need to spend OOS tuition or expensive private school tuition on geography. You could go to your state flagship or a less expensive school, do well, and get into any grad school you want. If Texas is instate, go there.</p>
<p>Thank you. I was definitely considering getting my basics done at the University of Texas (in state and automatic admit) and then (attempting) to transfer to Boston University. From what I’ve read on this site, BU has a pretty good graduate program and I’m from the area and would like to start my life there as well. But if you think that as long as I do well at the undergraduate level, I’d be able to go to any graduate school I desire, then I’ll go that route. Money is definitely a concern for me.</p>
<p>Unless you can find some other quality school for a price less than Texas, go to Texas. Great graduate programs are filled with students from all types of undergrad schools…top tier and ‘no-name’ schools. All grad students at top grad schools share 2 things in common: great undergrad grades and GRE scores. </p>
<p>In fact, many top grad programs prefer to have most of their grad students be from an undergrad school different than their own.</p>
<p>There is absolutely no advantage to attending BU for undergrad just because you want to go there for grad school.</p>
<p>To give you a point of reference here is a listing of the undergraduate schools represented at the top 10 archaeology Phd program at Arizona State University…and note how there is a wide mixture of students from elite schools, flagships, and ‘no-name’ schools. If you do well, you will be fine. Find some Econ Phd programs that you are interested in and see where their grad students went to undergrad, you will probably find a wide variety also.</p>
<p>ND
Morhead State
Grinnel
SUNY-Albany
CU-Boulder
West Florida
Florida
Truman State
Arizona
Oregon
Cornell
UCLA
Penn
Kenyon
MIT
Colorado State
Montana State</p>