The Department of Geography and Environment, one of the oldest and largest departments of Jahangirnagar University, has successfully conducted a number of research works, trainings and workshops on issues of national interests in collaboration with different national and international agencies/universities since its establishment. The study on Optimization of Benefits from Haors of Sylhet and Mymensingh was carried out jointly with the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, USA under the financial assistance of USAID in the 1970s. An action-oriented research-cum-study programme for rural development carried out in the adjacent rural communities over a period of more than five years in the 1980s had a great impact on rural development and influenced the national policy planning agendas profoundly. It has completed a research on the vital issue on river bank erosion in collaboration with the University of Manitoba, Canada in the late 1980s. This project River Bank Erosion Impact Study was sponsored by IDRC, Canada and was a multi-disciplinary nature in which geographers of this department contributed their considerable research efforts, and involved researchers from other disciplines. 

 Teachers of this department have completed various consultative research works on issues relating to environment and development. The flood action plan is one such initiative where geographers from this department contributed considerably in formulating plans and conducting trainings. Recently completed research cum training on hydroponics was sponsored by the Ministry of Science & Communication Technology, Government of Bangladesh and hydroponics as a viable livelihood option attracted many marginal farmers in the southern Bangladesh.  

 The University of Durham, UK, the British Council and the Overseas Development Agencies (ODA), UK; International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal are the international institutions and agencies that have come into agreement in recent years for collaborative research and training. These link programs have played a vital role in building institutional capacity on GIS through higher training of faculty members and laboratory development. The technical assistance received from these programs has enabled the department to modernize its academic curricula and to introduce GIS related courses both at undergraduate and graduate level.

 The above developments enabled the department to offer various certificate and professional level courses in GIS and Remote Sensing and their applications in environmental resource mapping and disaster management. The department has signed a MoU for academic collaboration with Salzburg University, Austria, very recently. The preparation for introducing e-learning platform-based M. Sc. and Advanced Diploma in GIS science is underway. This will open up a new horizon and the department will enter into the realm of virtual campus.

 From the very beginning, academic programs of the department are planned and executed in a manner to produce graduates capable of rendering services to the social needs of a developing country. The performance of the graduates placed in different jobs at home and abroad reflects the efficacy of the academic programs of the department. The relentless efforts of its faculty members towards academic excellence and research activities have made it possible for the Department of Geography and Environment to be in the forefront of higher learning institutions of the country.