Abstract:
Taking each province or autonomous region as the statistical unit, taking the number of enrolled students, schools and the number of enrolled students and schools per million people as two groups of measure indices, selecting the ratio of extreme values, coefficient of variation and geographic concentration index, and applying GIS to trend analysis and the five-category classification, an analysis is made of the spatial differentiation and accumulation characteristics of the major of National Geographic Science. The research shows that the spatial distribution of Geographical Science major in China is obviously imbalanced in terms of the coefficient of variation; and a weak aggregation is found in term of geographic concentration index; and the trend analysis reveals that there exists certain directional difference between east-west and north-south part of China. A large portion of enrolled students and schools are found to come from or be located in the north China which is surrounding He’nan and Shandong and the south China which surrounds Guangdong, while just a small portion of students and schools are from or in the vast west. the spatial distribution is not consistent in terms of the number of enrolled students and the number of schools per million people, yet the high numbers are principally found in the northern provinces or autonomous regions. To conclude, the corresponding counter measures for a balanced development of the major of Geographical Science are put forth as well