First some comments on the Purdue Geomatics Engineering program. I believe in the past Purdue had a surveying degree. At times a small concentrated program such as surveying can show up as a loss item on some college bean counters screen. By making surveying an engineering minor the costs get lost in the much larger engineering folder. It is one way for a college to continue to meet a societal need. I believe that some surveying courses were lost in the change but the 31 credits remaining meet most state requirements. New Jersey for instance requires a degree with 45 surveying credits per statute.
As a first point of discussion I will list the dozen states I am aware that do not have a surveying program within their borders:
Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont and Virginia. If I am wrong please correct me.
Paul in PA
Umaine has a surveying program as well.
Towson University in Maryland has a 2+2 program in Geography and Land Surveying
Old Dominion University in Virginia has a Surveying and Site Development Area of Specialization option as part of their Civil Engineering Technology degree program
I'm currently enrolled in a Geomatics program in Louisiana. It's Nicholls State University. Our school website is www.nicholls.edu
Towson Sounds Interesting ?
They list a BA/BS in Geography and Land Surveying but I cannot find enough details. It starts as an AS program at Community College of Baltimore County-Catonsville but I only find some course information at Harford College.
I seem to have lost information I had in the past regarding Old Dominion, but will re-add it to my list of preograms.
Paul in PA
South Dakota just added an AAS Land Survey Science at Southeast Technical Institute.
Thanks Curly South Dakota Added To Surveying Degree Programs
That makes only 9 states on my list of no survey degree programs.
Paul in PA
Add Alaska in the mix
Throw the University of Alaska, Anchorage into that. They have a AAS in Geomatics in their Engineering program (or they used to, rats, now I have to go check!:-|
Yeppers they still do!
-JD-
Adding Hawaii To No Surveying Degree Program List
I missed Hawaii the first time around. This is a revised list of nine states I am aware that do not have a surveying program within their borders:
Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
If I am wrong please correct me.
Paul in PA
Adding Hawaii To No Surveying Degree Program List
"If I am wrong please correct me."
I consider it my mission, but it wears me out:-(
Don
Don
Don, you are one funny guy.
And probably a swell fella too.
> First some comments on the Purdue Geomatics Engineering program. I believe in the past Purdue had a surveying degree. At times a small concentrated program such as surveying can show up as a loss item on some college bean counters screen. By making surveying an engineering minor the costs get lost in the much larger engineering folder. It is one way for a college to continue to meet a societal need. I believe that some surveying courses were lost in the change but the 31 credits remaining meet most state requirements. New Jersey for instance requires a degree with 45 surveying credits per statute.
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> As a first point of discussion I will list the dozen states I am aware that do not have a surveying program within their borders:
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> Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont and Virginia. If I am wrong please correct me.
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> Paul in PA
Land Surveying belongs in the Geography program and not the engineering department. In fact a BS in Geography should suffice.