Department of Geography University of Cambridge
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The Department of Geography
at the University of Cambridge
has an international reputation as a leading centre of research and is consistently ranked as one of the best departments in the UK. The Department was ranked top by The Times
Good University Guide in 2005. The Education Guardian
2009 University Rankings ranked the undergraduate degree first.
The long tradition of Geography at Cambridge goes back to the first University Lecturer in Geography appointed in 1888.
Research in the department is organised in the following research clusters:
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
has an international reputation as a leading centre of research and is consistently ranked as one of the best departments in the UK. The Department was ranked top by The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
Good University Guide in 2005. The Education Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
2009 University Rankings ranked the undergraduate degree first.
The long tradition of Geography at Cambridge goes back to the first University Lecturer in Geography appointed in 1888.
Research in the department is organised in the following research clusters:
- Spaces of Economy & Society
- Historical & Cultural Geography
- Society, Environment & Development
- Environmental Processes
- Glacial & Quaternary