About us
about-us
Release time:2019-06-13

About Us

1. History

2. Overviewof Peoples by the numbers

3. Discipline

4. Students

5. International cooperation

1.History

1946

The Department of Geography was established in National Lanzhou University.

1952

The bachelor program in physical geography of the Department of Geography was established.

1958

The bachelor program of geology was established; the Department of Geography was renamed as the Department of Geology and Geography.

1981

The department of physical Geography was authorized to confer the master’s degree as soon as China restored the academic degree system, and doctor’s degree in 1986. The bachelor program of economic geography and urban-rural planning was established in 1987.

1991

The Department of Geography was entitled one of the National Bases for Fundamental Research in Science and Teacher Development.

1999

The School of Earth and Environmental Sciences was founded, composed of the Department of Geographical Sciences, the Department of Geology, the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and the Department of Environmental Sciences.

2000

Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems, Ministry of Education was set up.

2002

The Department of hydrology and Water Resource Engineering was established.

2004

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences was independent from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences; the School of Atmospheric Sciences was set up.

2009

National Exemplary Centers of Experimental Education in Environmental Geography was established. The Institute of Western Environment and Climate Change was established in Lanzhou University.

2011

The Department of Geology was independent from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and the School of Geological Science and Mineral Resources was founded.

2015

The School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the School of Western Environment and Climate Change was integrated into one. The School of Earth and Environmental Sciences was established.

2.Overview of Peoples by the numbers

We actively absorb high-level talents from home and abroad, and form a team of experts and young scholars in the field of geography and environmental sciences.

193

Total

66

Professors

48

Associate professors

28

Lectures

21

Technicians

3

Members of the Chinese academy of sciences

4

Thousand talents program

4

Winners of the national science fund for distinguished young scholars

2

National renowned teacher and leading personnel of the national “ten thousand talents program”

5

Winner of the national science fund for outstanding youth

6

The cheung kong scholars program

3.Discipline

National Bases for Fundamental Research in Science and Teacher Development

Geography

National key disciplines

Physical Geography

Provincial key disciplines

Geography、Environmental Sciences

ESI TOP1%

Earth Science

Global Natural Index Ranking(Earth & Environment

The Earth and Environmental Sciences ranked 31st in 2017 in Asian-Pacific region (34th in 2016), and 9th among China’s universities (10th in 2016)

 


Discipline

Major

Bachelor

Physical Geography & Resource Environment

Human Geography & Urban-Rural Planning

Geographic Information Sciences

Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Environmental Sciences

Hydraulic engineering

Hydrology and Water Resources

Master

Geography

Earth System Sciences

Urban-Rural Planning

Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Environmental Sciences

Environmental Engineering

Professional Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering

Hydraulic Engineering

Hydrology and Water Resources

Geology

Quaternary Geology

Doctor

Geography

Physical Geography

Human Geography

Cartography and GIS

Earth System Sciences

Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Environmental Sciences

geology

Quaternary Geology

Post- Doctoral Research Center

Geography

4.Students


With more than 70-year development, the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences has become a comprehensive teaching and research institute with a complete system in training bachelors, masters and doctors. There are more than 750 undergraduates, more than 450 postgraduates and over 170 PhD students. Our college has such characteristic research fields as the uplift and its environmental effects of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, climate change and its mechanisms, cryosphere science, regional response and impact of global change, western geological disasters, and the control of environmental pollution and the restoration of ecology in western regions. Our college is now famed as an important base for both fundamental research in geoscience & environmental science and academic exchanges and talent cultivation in western China.

5.International cooperation

Our college attaches great importance to international academic exchange, signing cooperation agreements with universities in countries like the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Sweden and Japan. In recent years, "Belt and Road Initiative" provides excellent opportunities for the development of our college, especially in building cooperation and exchange relations with universities in Russia, Mongolia, Iran and Pakistan,etc. The college makes great efforts to strengthen international cooperation through jointly applying projects, hosting international conferences and opening joint summer schools, etc.

International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base: International Joint Research Center for Drought and Environmental Change in Central and East Asia


In recent 10 years

Students for cooperative programs:120+

Students for doctorate abroad:30+

International Students in China:20+