The MSc GIMA programme aims at educating students to become

• all-round managers of geo-information and/or
• all-round geo-information researcher and/or
• all-round geo-information application specialists.

Students will acquire

• knowledge of and skills in management methods and techniques
• substantial knowledge of geo-information application fields
• technical-methodological geo-information skills

Upon successful completion of the programme students should have:

• Up-to-date knowledge of geo-information technologies (e. g. GIS, remote sensing, photogrammetry, GPS, and cartographic visualisation), their scientific development and their fields of application.
• Skills in geo-data handling processes like acquisition, structuring, storing, retrieving, processing, analysing, modelling and visualizing geo-information.
• Ability to gain insight into the role of geo-data and geo-information within organisations (e. g. geo-data infrastructure) and outside organisations (e. g. geo-information clearinghouses) and manage geo-information departments, units, and projects.

• Ability to recognise, describe, analyse, and synthesise geo-information handling relevant for research, policy, and business problems, and to develop and execute geo-information-based projects and prototypes