China Agricultural University (CAU), directly subordinated to the Ministry of Education, was selected as the first group member entering both the State 211 & 985 Program in order to be constructed as one of the Key State Universities in China.

As the origin and the oldest higher agricultural education institution in China, CAU’s history could be dated back to 1905, when the College of Agriculture was founded in the Jingshi Daxuetang (the former Imperial University of Peking and the present Peking University) by the Qing Dynasty. The current CAU was merged in 1995 by the former Beijing Agricultural University and the Beijing agricultural Engineering University.

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With more than 100-year history, CAU has formed a comprehensive university with distinctive feature and dominant position in agricultural sciences, education, research and extension. The strong groups of disciplines at the University are agriculture & life science, natural resources & environmental sciences, agricultural engineering & automation science, informatics & computer science, as well as economics, management and social sciences. All the disciplines in CAU cover a wide range of fields, including agriculture, livestock, engineering, biology and bio-technology, resource and environment, science, economics, management, law, literature, medicine and philosophy.

CAU is proud in possessing an army of outstanding faculty members including five Academician of Chinese Academy of Science and five Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and 351 professors and 598 Associate Professors. Besides, CAU has successfully established 71 Doctorial Degree Grant Stations with 11 Post-Doctor Work Stations, and 136 Master Degree Grant Stations. CAU at present has about 21,300 students enrolled, of which 2,000 are under Doctorial Program and more than 3,300 under Master’s Program.

The CAU Comprehensive Development Plan for further improvement and renovation is under implementation. The ultimate goal of the Plan is to make CAU one of the lead comprehensive, research-oriented and internationalized agricultural universities of the world. 

CAU, therefore, pays great importance to international cooperation and exchange activities. CAU has foreign students at different levels from more than 30 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania. China agricultural University warmly welcomes more foreigners to spend their life for study, teaching and research in the beautiful CAU campuses.