diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/bigquery_v2/bigquery_schema.py b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/bigquery_v2/bigquery_schema.py
index cbe1f6eb978247..d3d8ed62cd364c 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/bigquery_v2/bigquery_schema.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/bigquery_v2/bigquery_schema.py
@@ -292,6 +292,11 @@ def get_datasets_for_project_id(
                         if hasattr(d, "_properties") and isinstance(d._properties, dict)
                         else None
                     ),
+                    # TODO: Fetch dataset description individually impacts overall performance if the number of datasets is high (hundreds); instead we should fetch in batch for all datasets.
+                    # TODO: Given we are calling get_dataset for each dataset, we may consume and publish other fields too, such as created, modified, etc...
+                    # https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/bigquery/latest/google.cloud.bigquery.client.Client#google_cloud_bigquery_client_Client_get_dataset
+                    # https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/bigquery/latest/google.cloud.bigquery.dataset.Dataset
+                    comment=self.bq_client.get_dataset(d.reference).description,
                 )
                 for d in datasets
             ]
diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/bigquery_v2/bigquery_schema_gen.py b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/bigquery_v2/bigquery_schema_gen.py
index 1cace31a5e4c49..8ea414c43abb79 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/bigquery_v2/bigquery_schema_gen.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/bigquery_v2/bigquery_schema_gen.py
@@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ def gen_dataset_containers(
         self,
         dataset: str,
         project_id: str,
+        description: Optional[str] = None,
         tags: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
         extra_properties: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
     ) -> Iterable[MetadataWorkUnit]:
@@ -336,6 +337,7 @@ def gen_dataset_containers(
             domain_config=self.config.domain,
             schema_container_key=schema_container_key,
             database_container_key=database_container_key,
+            description=description,
             external_url=(
                 BQ_EXTERNAL_DATASET_URL_TEMPLATE.format(
                     project=project_id, dataset=dataset
@@ -471,14 +473,15 @@ def _process_schema(
 
         if self.config.include_schema_metadata:
             yield from self.gen_dataset_containers(
-                dataset_name,
-                project_id,
-                bigquery_dataset.labels,
-                (
+                dataset=dataset_name,
+                project_id=project_id,
+                tags=bigquery_dataset.labels,
+                extra_properties=(
                     {"location": bigquery_dataset.location}
                     if bigquery_dataset.location
                     else None
                 ),
+                description=bigquery_dataset.comment,
             )
 
         columns = None