The basic mission of this faculty is to train creative and practical talents capable of solving the scientific and technological problems arising in the investigation, exploitation, use and protection of the country's resources and environment, and contribute to the sustainable development of the country by evaluating, predicting, protecting and managing the resources and environment and by making the effective use of them.
It was established as Faculty of Geography in 1949 with the Geography Department established within Faculty of History and Literature in 1947 as the parent body. In 2004, it was renamed Faculty of Global Environmental Science.
In the Faculty, there are 3 departments (Department of Physical Geography, Department of National Land Planning, Department of Hydrology) and 4 institutes (Institute of Eco-environment, Institute of Terrestrial Space, Institute of Meteorology, Institute of Oceanography).
There are courses of Earth and Environment Science, Land Management, Ecology & Environment, Hydrometeorology and Oceanography.
The typical subjects are “Physical Geography”, “Geomorphology”, “National Land Management”, “Environmental Science”, “Environmental Impact Assessment”, "Cartography", “Surveying”, "Geographical Information System", “Remote Sensing”, “Satellite Information Analysis”, "Meteorology", "Theory & Method of Weather Forecasting", "Hydrology", "River Dynamics", "Oceanography", "Coastal Engineering" etc.
