Founded in 1958, CSUFT has developed into a multidisciplinary university comprising a wide range of disciplines in science, engineering, agriculture, arts, law, economics, management and education, and has been authorized to offer a comprehensive range of programs including bachelor, master, doctor’s programs and post-doctoral programs. Since its foundation, the university has turned out over 160,000 talents.CSUFT is located in the national historical and cultural city : Changsha. Currently the university consists of 24 colleges and departments: College of Forestry, College of Life Science and Technology, College of Science, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, College of Logistics, College of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, College of Computer and Information Engineering, College of Food Science and Engineering, College of Landscape Architecture, College of Furniture and Art Design, College of Business, College of Economics, College of Politics and Law, College of Foreign Languages, College of Tourism (College of Huatian Tourism and Hospitality Management), College of Physical Culture.College of Music, Department of Political Theory Teaching, International College, College of Adult Education, New College. The university has 3 post-doctoral programs (forestry, biology, forestry engineering), 2 discipline-level doctoral programs (forestry, forestry engineering), 17 sub-discipline doctoral programs (ecology, forest cultivation, wood science and technology, forest engineering, chemical processing engineering of forestry products, forest protection, forest management, wood heredity breeding, botany, protection and utilization of wildlife, gardening and ornamental horticulture, water & soil conservancy and desertification control, cash forest, forestry engineering, processing engineering and utilization of forestry food, furniture and interior design, forestry recreation and park management), 4 discipline-level MA or MS programs (biology, environment science and engineering, forestry engineering, forestry), 46 sub-discipline MA or MS programs (biology, wood heredity breeding, zoology, forest cultivation, biochemistry and molecular biology, forest protection, ecology, forest management, mechanical theory and design, protection and utilization of wildlife, computer application technology, gardening and ornamental horticulture, forestry engineering, water & soil conservancy and desertification control, wood science and technology, tourism management, chemical processing engineering of forestry products, forestry economic management, environment science, forest products processing and storing engineering, environment and resource protection law, applied chemistry, design art, ferment engineering, physiology, environment engineering, aquatic biology, food science, microbiology, pomology, nerve biology, enterprise management, genetics, growth biology, biophysics, cell biology, cash forestry, mechanical manufacture and automation, forestry mechanical engineering, processing engineering and utilization of forestry food, structure engineering, furniture and interior design, forestry recreation and park management, agricultural promotion, higher education teaching, forestry engineering). The university has 3 State-level key disciplines (forest cultivation, ecology, wood science and technology), 4 national-accredited key disciplines under the State Forestry Bureau (ecology, wood science and technology, forest protection, chemical processing engineering of forestry products), 9 provincial key disciplines (forest cultivation, ecology, wood science and technology, forest protection, forestry engineering, forest management, environment and resource protection law, environment science, gardening and ornamental horticulture).