Geology

About the Department

Geology department is one of the programs offered in the College of Natural and Computational Sciences. The department was established in 2021 admitting 22 undergraduate students for the first time. Through time, the department was in a continuous development of its laboratory facilities and human power so that the department can increase its student admission capacity and engage more in research and community services. Currently, the department has 13 academic staffs 9 of them are lectures specialized in different streams of geosciences. As of January 2025, the department has graduated students three times and its graduates have consecutively passed the National Exit Exam 100%. The department has a strong mission to produce skilled man power on the area of earth sciences that can provide vital contribution on the exploration, exploitation, and management of earth resources (minerals, groundwater, petroleum, geothermal energy, etc.) and study the causes and mitigation measures of geo-hazards (landslides, earthquake, volcanism, flooding, ground fissuring, environmental pollution, etc.) and conducting researches that can solve problems in our society that are related with the planet and the universe as a whole.