Shenyang Agricultural University (SYAU), jointly administered by national and local governments, is a national key university in China. The Chairman of SYAU University Council is Prof. Liu Guanglin. The President of SYAU is Prof. Chen Qijun. With Tianzhu Mountain standing on its north side, the world cultural heritage--Fuling Tomb of Qing Dynastry to its east and Hunhe River to its south, SYAU is situated in the heart of the integrated region linking the two cities of Shenyang and Fushun. Occupying a total area of 10246mu (mu is a unit of area used in China and 1mu is equivalent to around 0.067 hectare) and surrounded with a tranquil neighborhood, a beautiful scenery and a pleasant ecological and cultural environment, SYAU makes an ideal place for teaching, learning and research. SYAU has 16 colleges and 4 teaching faculties. With a sound and complete system for agricultural education and research, SYAU currently has 8 post-doc research programs, 72 doctoral programs, 114 master's programs, and 58 undergraduate programs, incorporating 3 national key disciplines, 3 MOA key disciplines, 7 provincially higher education first-class characteristic disciplines, 27 provincially key disciplines. To ensure a better environment that enables quality education and research at SYAU, an all-around upgrade of teaching and research infrastructure was initiated in 2012 and worked out rapidly with 17 new functional buildings bulit covering an area of 200,000 square meters and well-equipped world-class teaching and research bases put into use. The construction of new outside-campus teaching and research demonstration centers has been completed with an area of 43 hectares in Haicheng, Liaozhong and Zhangwu, having enormously enlarged the development space for SYAU and providing further support and guarantee for developing high-level teaching and research activities. With 257 professors having been awarded the government allowance by the State Council, SYAU now has 1,729 faculties and staff including 1250 full-time teaching staff, of whom there are 187 professors, 334 associate professors, 202 PhD student advisors, and 577 Master candidate supervisors. Presently, the number of on-campus students amounts to 21,156, consisting of 777 PhD candidates, 3,011 postgraduate students and 13,310 undergraduate students, 403 international students, 776 part-time professional Master candidates, and 2,879 students for continuing education . Show less