Nanjing Agricultural University

Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing Agricultural University is located in Nanjing, an ancient capital city with beautiful scenery and a strategic location. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education with advantages and characteristics in agriculture and life sciences, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines in agriculture, science, economics, management, engineering, liberal arts, and law. It is one of the key universities in the national "211 Project" and "985 Project Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform". It is a member of the High-level Industry-specific University Quality Resource Sharing Alliance and one of the first batch of national pilot universities for the reform of the Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talent Education and Training Program.

Nanjing Agricultural University is located in Nanjing, an ancient capital city with beautiful scenery and a strategic location. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education with advantages and characteristics in agriculture and life sciences, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines in agriculture, science, economics, management, engineering, liberal arts, and law. It is a national key university in the "211 Project", "985 Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" and "Double First-Class" construction university. The current party secretary of the school is Professor Chen Ligen, and the president is Professor Chen Fadi.

The predecessor of Nanjing Agricultural University can be traced back to the Agricultural and Natural History Department of Sanjiang Normal School in 1902 and the Agricultural Department of Private Jinling University in 1914. In 1952, the colleges and departments of colleges and universities across the country were adjusted, and the Agricultural College of Jinling University and the Agricultural College of Nanjing University (formerly the Agricultural College of National Central University) were merged to form Nanjing Agricultural College; in 1963, it was identified as one of the two key agricultural colleges in the country; in 1972, it moved to Yangzhou and merged with Subei Agricultural College to form Jiangsu Agricultural College; in 1979, it moved back to Nanjing and restored Nanjing Agricultural College; in 1984, it was renamed Nanjing Agricultural University; in 2000, it was transferred from the Ministry of Agriculture to the Ministry of Education as an independent institution.

Nanjing Agricultural University currently has 20 colleges (departments), including the College of Agriculture, College of Engineering, College of Plant Protection, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, College of Horticulture, College of Animal Science and Technology (including Wuxi Fisheries College), College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Food Science and Technology, School of Economics and Management, School of Public Administration, School of Humanities and Social Development, School of Life Sciences, School of Science, School of Information Management, School of Foreign Languages, School of Finance, College of Grassland, School of Marxism, School of Artificial Intelligence, and Department of Physical Education; 68 undergraduate majors, 30 first-level master's degree-granting disciplines, and 20 professional degree-granting disciplines. , 17 first-level doctoral disciplines and 15 postdoctoral mobile stations; more than 17,000 full-time undergraduates, more than 11,000 graduate students; more than 2,900 faculty and staff, including: 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 47 national specially appointed experts, winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 3 national teaching masters, 5 national outstanding teachers, model teachers, and advanced workers in the education system, more than 140 people selected for other national talent projects and talent plans, 2 innovative research groups of the National Natural Science Foundation, and 6 national and provincial teaching teams.

Nanjing Agricultural University's talent training covers undergraduate education, graduate education, international student education, continuing education and cadre training. It has established the "National College Students' Cultural Quality Education Base", "National Basic Science Research and Teaching Talent Training Base", "National Life Science and Technology Talent Training Base", "Biological Science Outstanding Student Training Program 2.0 Base" and the National Experimental Teaching Center for Plant Production, Animal Science, and Agricultural Biology Virtual Simulation. It is one of the first universities to pass the national undergraduate teaching work excellent evaluation. In 2000, the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of a graduate school. In 2014, the first batch of the National Excellent Agriculture and Forestry Talent Training Program was selected. Agronomy, seed science and engineering, agricultural mechanization and automation, agricultural electrification, plant protection, agricultural resources and environment, horticulture, animal science, aquaculture, veterinary medicine, food science and engineering, food quality and safety, agricultural and forestry economic management, land resources management, administrative management, sociology, rural regional development, biotechnology, biological science, finance, accounting, grassland science and other 22 majors were approved as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, ecology, landscape architecture, animal pharmacy, international economy and trade, human geography and urban and rural planning, applied chemistry, information management and information system, English and other 9 majors were approved as provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites. In the course of more than 100 years of running schools, the school has adhered to the NAU spirit with "honesty, simplicity, diligence and benevolence" as the core, and cultivated top innovative and compound application talents with "world vision, Chinese feelings and NAU quality", and has cultivated more than 300,000 outstanding talents including 60 academicians.

Nanjing Agricultural University has 4 national key disciplines in the first-level disciplines, 3 national key disciplines in the second-level disciplines, and 1 national key cultivation discipline. In the fourth round of national first-level discipline evaluation, 4 disciplines of crop science, agricultural resources and environment, plant protection, and agricultural and forestry economic management were rated A+, and 3 disciplines of public administration, food science and engineering, and horticulture were rated A. 8 disciplines have entered the Jiangsu University Advantage Discipline Construction Project. Ten disciplines, including agricultural science, plant and animal science, environmental ecology, biology and biochemistry, engineering, microbiology, molecular biology and genetics, chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology, and general social sciences, are ranked in the top 1% of the ESI discipline rankings worldwide, of which two disciplines, including agricultural science and plant and animal science, are ranked in the top 1‰, ranking among the world's top disciplines.

Nanjing Agricultural University has established 103 national and ministerial and provincial scientific research platforms, including the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Innovation, the National Engineering Technology Research Center for Meat Quality and Safety Control, the National Information Agriculture Engineering Technology Center, the National Soybean Improvement Center, the National Organic Fertilizer Engineering Technology Research Center, the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Rural Land Resources Utilization and Remediation, and the National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Green Pesticide Creation and Application Technology. Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, more than 6 billion yuan of scientific research funds have been allocated, and more than 200 national and ministerial and provincial scientific and technological achievement awards have been won, including 12 national science and technology awards as the first completing unit. Actively serving the national poverty alleviation and rural revitalization strategies, relying on strong scientific research strength, it has created huge economic and social benefits and has been rated as a "national advanced unit for promoting agriculture through science and education" many times. From 2017 to 2019, it was selected as one of the top ten typical projects of targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty reduction in universities directly under the Ministry of Education for three consecutive years.

Nanjing Agricultural University actively responds to the national "Belt and Road" initiative, continuously improves its internationalization level, and has increasingly active foreign exchanges. It has maintained student joint training, academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation with more than 160 high-level overseas universities and research institutions in more than 30 countries and regions. With world-renowned universities such as the University of California, Davis, Cornell University, Ghent University in Belgium, and Massey University in New Zealand, it has carried out dozens of student joint training programs such as "Exchange Visiting", "Undergraduate Double Degree", and "Undergraduate and Master Double Degree". In 2019, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it cooperated with Michigan State University to establish the Nanjing Agricultural University Michigan College. There are many international cooperation platforms such as the "China-US Joint Research Center for Food Safety and Quality", "China-Kenya Crop Molecular Biology 'Belt and Road' Joint Laboratory", "Animal Health and Food Safety" International Cooperation Joint Laboratory, "International Joint Research Center for Animal Digestive Tract Nutrition", "China-UK Plant Phenome Joint Research Center", "Nanjing Agricultural University-UC Davis Joint Research Center for Global Health", and "Asian Agricultural Research Center". In 2007, it became the "university that accepts Chinese government scholarship students to study in China" by the Ministry of Education. In 2008, it became one of the first "education aid bases" in the country. In 2012, it was approved to build the world's first Confucius Institute with agricultural characteristics. In 2014, it was jointly approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education to establish the "China-ASEAN Education and Training Center". In 2012, it initiated the establishment of the "World Agriculture Award". For eight consecutive sessions, it has awarded 10 winners from universities such as Cornell University, University of California, Davis, Ohio State University, University of Bonn, University of Alberta, Ghent University in Belgium, University of Ghana, Catholic University of Chile and China Agricultural University.

Nanjing Agricultural University has Weigang Campus, Pukou Campus and Baima Teaching and Research Base, with a total area of ​​9 square kilometers, a building area of ​​740,000 square meters, a collection of 2.35 million books and materials, more than 10,000 foreign journals and more than 5 million Chinese electronic books. In 2014, we co-founded the academic journal Horticulture Research with Nature Group, and in 2019, it was selected as a leading journal in the "Excellence Plan" of Chinese Science and Technology Journals; in 2018, we co-founded the academic journal Plant Phenomics with Science Group; in 2019, we co-founded the academic journal BioDesign Research with Science Group.

Looking to the future, as a pioneer of modern Chinese higher agricultural education, Nanjing Agricultural University will take moral education as its foundation, strengthen agriculture and promote agriculture as its mission, strengthen connotation construction, focus on reform and innovation, serve national strategic needs, and strive to cultivate new talents who know and love agriculture, and comprehensively embark on a new journey of building a world-class university with agricultural characteristics!

(Data as of March 2022)