Introduction

• Building on a history of over117years, Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) is a pioneer of modern agricultural education, research, and extension work, and from 1902, the first institution in China to offer four-year bachelor programs in agricultural disciplines.
• Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU)is a multi-disciplinary national key university under the administration of the Chinese Ministry of Education. With agriculture and life sciences as its dominant field, NAU has diverse branches of learning in its 20 colleges, such as sciences, economics, management, engineering, law, and the arts.
• NAU now consists of five faculties: Plant Sciences, Animal Science, Biology and Environment, Food and Engineering, and Social Sciences. NAU offers63Bachelor’s programs, 98Master’s programs, and 53Doctoral programs. Currently, we have over 17,000 undergraduate students and about 11000graduate students studying at the university. There are more than 3543staff, including 2166 faculty members. The annual number of international students enrolled in a degree and short-term exchange programs at NAU has reached over 1000.

Today’s NAU is:

• A multi-disciplinary, national key university under the administration of the Ministry of Education.
• Being selected into the national “double first-class” initiative in 2017 (“world-class university” and “world-class discipline”, a new impetus for the development of China’s higher education sector).
• One of the Innovation Platforms for Outstanding Disciplines listed under the National 985 Excellence Initiative Project.
• Seven academic disciplines offered at NAU were graded in the A category(A+：Crop Science, Agricultural Resources and Environment, Plant Protection, and Agricultural and Forestry Economics and Management; A：Public Administration; A-：Food Science and Engineering, Horticulture) according to the results of the 4th National First-level Discipline Evaluation announced by the Ministry of Education in December 2017. With four A+ disciplines, NAU ranks 11th among Chinese universities nationwide.
• RanksNo.9 in the latest ranking of “Best Global Universities for Agricultural Sciences” by U.S. News & World Report in 2017.
• Ranks 47th in the world in Agriculture& Forestry according to the 2018 QS World University Rankings by Subject. This marks the first time NAU has been named among the world’s top 50 universities in one of its core teaching and research areas.
• Eight disciplines—Agricultural Science, Botany and zoology, Environmental Science and Ecology, Biology and Biochemistry, Engineering, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Genetics and Chemistry —are among the world’s 1% according to Essential Science Indicators (ESI) rankings. In particular, Agricultural Science and Botany and Zoology are among the world’s top 0.1%, placing NAU at the global forefront in these fields.
• Committed to a blueprint of promoting leading-edge academics, cultivating innovative and entrepreneurial talents, and emerging as a regional hub for international academic exchange and cooperation.