Graduate students in Geography and Anthropology from Louisiana State University may specialize in human geography, physical geography, mapping sciences, archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics, cultural anthropology, or forensic anthropology. Regional foci include: Latin America, American South, East and Southeast Asia, and Africa. Graduate students often include courses in both Geography and Anthropology in their program of study. For example, archaeologists often include GIS and remote sensing. Human geographers often include courses in cultural anthropology. 

Requirements for the Ph.D. in Geography and Anthropology include a minimum of 60 credit hours beyond the bachelor’s degree or 30 hours beyond the master’s degree, 10 hours of which are core courses, two or more advanced seminars, and an external minor or nine credit hours in approved cognate fields (including one seminar). Students must write a dissertation constituting an original contribution to the discipline.