Abstract: With the rapid development of geographic information science (GIS) expertise, the technology has been applied to all aspects of society, so that people's production and life has undergone tremendous changes, a lot of industries and research fields began to use GIS to solve the practical problems of scientific research, production,economic and social development. Faced with the current social needs of multi-level applications, there is the urgent need for a large number inter-disciplinary talents of both master GIS technology, who also understand the management, and the ability to deepen the application of GIS technology. However, relative new characteristics of social demand, college graduates GIS professional training of our country is facing many limitations and shortcomings, it is difficult to meet the needs of society. This requires reform existing GIS professional training mode of university, from the social multi-level needs, combined with the objective reality of the current social development, set up a GIS Professional Training Model of highlighting school characteristics and student ability.

Key words: GIS professional, multi-level needs, school characteristics, student ability, talent training mode