In the past 70 years, the Department has trained thousands of personnel and professionals for the country. All these programs are open for both MA postgraduates and Doctoral postgraduates. Now the Department has an undergraduate student body of 80, MA postgraduate student body of 90 and doctoral postgraduate student body of 60. The ratio of undergraduate student and postgraduate student is nearly 1 to 1. It has three national key disciplines, namely, Ore Deposit Study and Geochemistry, Structural Geology and Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology.
Petrology is a provincial key discipline.
The Department has a faculty body of 147, and 93 of them are teachers. 24 professors of the Department are qualified Doctoral postgraduate supervisors. The Department has gained remarkable achievements in the research areas of granitic rocks, uolcanic rocks and related mineralizations, fluid processes in continental crusts, lithosphere structure and reaction between the crust and mantle in South China, dynamics of sedimentation in oil-gas basin and basin modeling, environmental geology and engineering geology of soil mass, and materials of minerals and rocks. In recent years, over 70 projects have won various awards. Every year, the Department publishes over 150 academic papers.