Stanford v. Oxford for prestige?

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<p>That’s the sort of stuff I did in A Level geography. I prefer physical geography to human.</p>

<p>^^It’s interesting that many British universities have geography departments, but in the US, most such departments are in public universities. I think for many years the erroneous perception in the US was that it’s an easy major. Also, I think many universities felt that other departments already covered aspects of the subject, e.g., geomorphology and climatology in earth sciences depts. The only Ivy with a geography dept. is Dartmouth. At both Northwestern and Chicago, the field lost departmental status. You can still do a BA in it at Chicago and NU, but at NU it is only allowed as a co-major. Michigan discontinued its department altogether. I also find it interesting that some universities are bringing certain aspects of geography in through the back door. For example, Harvard offered some coursework in GIS in its Government Dept.</p>

<p>He who is ignorant of geography ends up with maps like these:
[Mapping</a> Stereotypes by alphadesigner](<a href=“http://alphadesigner.com/project-mapping-stereotypes.html]Mapping”>Mapping Stereotypes — Alphadesigner)</p>

<p>LOL, that made me laugh. I hope though you are not referring to me :(</p>

<p>Haha I have to laugh again after seeing some of the descriptions</p>

<p>^ No, just referring to the geographically challenged in general.</p>