The Department of Geography Education is one of the departments at the Tondano Teacher Training College (PTPG), which opened in 1955. Unrest in North Sulawesi caused campus activities to cease, and the teaching staff, mostly foreigners, including Dutch citizens, returned to their countries. This prevented the Department from reopening after security was restored in North Sulawesi and lectures were moved to Manado.

In 1969, the Department of Geography Education was reopened at the Faculty of Social Sciences Teacher Training, IKIP Manado based on the decision of the Minister of Education and Culture. In September 1984, the Geography Education Study Program was opened based on the Decree of the Director of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture Number 060/Dikti/1984 dated July 31, 1984.