Geographic Information Systems
Careers
The demand for GIS technicians is explosive. US News and World Red lists GIS as "One of the twenty Top Hot Job Tracks for the next decade". GIS can be applied to many different subjects and problems and can lead to a number of GIS related occupations. GIs technicians are in demand in the following fields:
- Geology, Geography & Oceanography
- Physical and Life Sciences
- Economics and Market Research Analysis
- City and Regional Planning
- Engineering and Transportation Management
- Property and Real Estate Management
- Communications and Utility Operations
- Surveying and Mapping Services
- Landscape Architecture
- Real Estate Broker Appraisal
- Police, Fire & Ambulance Dispatch
- Environmental Planning
- Natural Resource Management