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Common subjects taken by successful Geography applicants include – Geography, Economics, English, History, Sciences, Mathematics.
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St John’s has a long and distinguished tradition in Geography. Our teaching Fellows were students here themselves, glaciologist Professor Neil Arnold and economic geographer Professor Sarah Hall.
The expertise of our Fellows means that for all core elements of the first year Geography curriculum, human and physical, you will have supervisions in College.
With 6 to 8 undergraduates accepted for Geography each year, you’ll learn with and from your peers in College, a ready-made community of enthusiastic, fun and active geographers.
Our student-run geography society – the Purchas Society – organises events, talks and socials. A highlight each year is the Dissertation and Pizza Evening, where third years share top tips from their dissertation experience to help earlier year-groups to plan ahead.
Adventurous geographers at St John’s benefit from a range of travel grants, several reserved to geography students and others for experiencing wild places, and they make the most of these myriad opportunities to enrich their academic experience including dissertation-related travel.
Watch this video to find out more about studying Geography at Cambridge.
We are looking for people who are intelligent and independent thinkers, deeply curious about their subject and willing to push themselves.
We select the brightest and most committed students, so work hard to secure excellent examination results, and continue to perform very well in school/college in your penultimate and final years so that your teachers are able to confirm that you are one of their very best students when writing your UCAS reference.
Successful applicants not only excel in their school subjects, they can evidence their passion for Geography. This might come from discussing a book or podcast on a Geography topic that excites you, or setting out how you put Geography into practice through, for example, running your own sustainability initiative in your local park or supporting the environmental plan at your school or college.
Tell us which parts of the Cambridge degree programme interest you and why you feel you would benefit from our teaching approach, which includes lectures and field trips alongside the Cambridge supervision system of small group teaching.
