geography major?

<p>It seems an education in geography can lead to many fields. I’m interested in government or social service work, but I want be versatile. Is there a better major than geography for someone interested in social service? I suppose geography leads to these:</p>

<p>Banks Cartographic Firms
Chambers of Commerce
Charities
Colleges and Universities
Consulting Firms
Environmental Systems Research Institute
ERDAS
Foundations
GIS Applications
Historical Societies
Insurance Companies
Intergraph
International Development Organizations
Legal Firms (particularly environmental law)
Libraries
Medical Groups
Museums
Newspapers and Magazines
NGOs
Public-Relations Firms
Publishing Companies
Refugee Assistance Organizations
Research Firms
Schools
Science Policy
Social-Service Agencies
Travel Industry
Wildlife Management Agencies</p>

<p>Army Corps of Engineers
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of the Census
Central Intelligence Agency
Congressional Offices
Defense Mapping Agency
Department of Agriculture
Department of State
Department of State Lands
Drug Enforcement Administration
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Food and Agriculture Organization (United Nations)
Law Enforcement
Montana Office of Public Instruction
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Park Service
National Science Foundation
Natural Resource Information System (Montana State Library)
Organization of American States
Peace Corps
Planning Agencies
Smithsonian Institution
State Department of Transportation
State Historical Preservation Office
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
U.S. Agency for International Development
U.S. Forest Service
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Information Agency
VISTA
World Bank
World Health Organization
World Meteorological Organization</p>

<p>A general Bachelor of Arts in Geography could lead you literally anywhere. But if choose to study GIS (Geographic Information Systems) as you major in Geography, you certainly are capable of obtaining a job in that utilizes GIS tools to analyze information.</p>

<p>I’m thinking of doing the same thing. Probably a double in that and Political Science. People make fun of it as a major, but they don’t realize what it consists of at the University level. To me it is the father of many social sciences including Economics, Political Science, Anthropology, History, and more. GIS systems is really on the rise as well. The plus side to that is not many college kids think of it so they are in need of people, and it is almost like having a computer degree without all the math.</p>