Kathmandu Forestry College is serving as a study center of the University of Salzburg Austria to run an M.Sc. program in Geographical Information Science and Systems (GIScience), popularly known as the UNIGIS MSC course. The Program has been authorized by the Ministry of Education, Government of Nepal. Individuals aiming at a career in GIS or professionals already active in this field and are interested in pursuing international quality higher education while working will find this program attractive. The degree has received equivalence from T.U.
Major subject areas
The course is based on the UNIGIS network and has at least 120 European Credit Transfer Systems (ECTS). The course contains 9 compulsory modules (GIS introduction, Data Modeling, and Data Structures, Data Sources and Acquisition, GIS Organization and Project Management, Geographic Database management system, Open GIS and Distributed GI Infrastructures, Geographical Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Visualization, and Cartography) of 54 credit hours, 12 credit hours learning practice and academic work, 24 credit hours elective and project work and 30 credit hours thesis work. The knowledge gained through this course will be useful in the following fields:
- Environmental analysis and management (e.g. climatic factors, forest, water bodies, soil erosion, biodiversity, protected areas, coastal areas, mountainous areas, etc.)
- Natural resources and economic planning (e.g. agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, fisheries, mining, landscape analysis, tourism, Industry, etc.)
- Infrastructure development and management (e.g. transport networks, water & sanitation, health facilities, education institutions, etc.)
- Security and safety (e.g. crime & danger assessment, risk & vulnerability assessment, emergency response, disaster management, disease & epidemic pattern, public safety measure, etc.)
- Business planning and management (e.g. site location, product marketing, supply networks, insurance calculation, stakeholder analysis, etc.)
- Government and Politics (e.g. public administration, electoral analysis, voting pattern, etc.) urban, rural and regional planning (e.g. integrated approach to land use planning & management at various spatial units, etc.)
- Other fields are related to spatial analysis and management.