A comparative study on curriculum of geological engineering specialty between two universities in P. R. China and Japan, Tongji University and Shinshu University, was carried out. The different emphasis in talent cultivation was analyzed from the view of cultivation objective, credit, course, and practice teaching. The comparative results show that the course setup in Tongji University emphasizes cultivating students as future engineers, but that in Shinshu University emphasizes letting students can master more principal knowledge of geology. The difference in curriculum between two universities is caused fundamentally by the different development stages, namely the different fundamental realities of two countries.