The curriculum of an undergraduate student consists of both physical and human geography as well as GIS and cartography.

It focuses on both physical and human geography while giving the opportunity to specialize in a particular topic.

SoGE houses three research centres: the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE), and the Transport Studies Unit (TSU).

[2] In 1887, Halford John Mackinder was appointed as the university's first lecturer in geography.

[3] Initially, the School was housed on the upper floor of the Old Ashmolean building, but it outgrew these premises and began renting temporary rooms on Broad Street in 1909.