The college consists of Departments of Geology, Department of Petroleum Geology,  the Research Center of Basin and Reservoir, and the State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting. The college has a staff body of 118 including 42 professors and 45 associate professors. 85% of the staff holds doctor’s degree. The 42 professors include four academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, two specially-appointed professor of the Yangtze River Scholar Plan and one chief scientist of 973 Project. From 1953 the college has cultivated more than 10,000 talents specialized in oil and gas exploration and development. Currently, the college has 731 undergraduate students, 727 postgraduate students, 251 PhD discipline students and 20 Post doctor students. The college currently offers two Bachelor programs, seven Master programs, and two Doctoral programs.

With a balanced development of teaching and research, the College of Geosciences aims to build itself into an internationally influential research group and to cultivate more talents specialized in Geosciences .