Founded in 1905, China Agricultural University (CAU) – 中国农业大学 – is China’s oldest institution of higher education specializing in agriculture. The university president is directly appointed by the central government. Today, CAU is among China’s top-ranked universities and consistently ranks highly in global university rankings for agricultural sciences, including the Shanghai Ranking. In the QS World University Rankings, CAU holds 11th place among the world’s leading universities for forestry and agriculture.
As of 2024, CAU had a total enrollment of 22,167 students, including 312 international students (1.4%). Of these, 12,204 are undergraduate students, while 9,963 are graduate students, with 290 (2.9%) coming from international backgrounds. The university spans a 157-hectare campus.
CAU offers a diverse range of undergraduate programs, including Agricultural Building Environment and Energy Engineering, Agricultural Economy and Management, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Mechanization and Automation, Agronomy, Animal Medicine, Animal Science, Applied Meteorology, Biological Engineering, Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Chemistry, E-Commerce, Ecology, Energy and Power Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Food Quality and Safety, Food Science and Engineering, Gardening, Geographic Information System, Grape and Wine Engineering, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Land Resource Management, Law, Marketing, Plant Protection, Resources and Environmental Science, Rural Regional Development, Sociology, and Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering.
The university offers an extensive selection of graduate programs, including Agricultural Biological Environmental and Energy Engineering, Agricultural Electrification and Automation, Agricultural Entomology and Pest Control, Agricultural Equipment Engineering, Agricultural Products Processing and Storage, Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, Animal Genetic Breeding and Reproduction, Animal Husbandry and Biological Engineering, Animal Nutrition and Food Science, Anthropology, Aquatic Products Processing, Atmospheric Physics and Atmospheric Environment, Basic Veterinary Science, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomass Engineering, Biophysics, Botany, Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Crop Cultivation and Farming, Crop Genetics and Breeding, Crop Physiology, Ecology, Economic Law, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Food Science, Forestry Economics and Management, Genetics, Hydraulics and River Dynamics, Hydrology and Water Resources, Land Resources Management, Land Use and IT, Meteorology, Microbiology, Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Nutrition and Food Safety, Ornamental Horticulture, Ornamental Plants and Gardening, Pedology, Pesticide Science, Plant Nutrition, Plant Pathology, Plant Quarantine and Ecological Health, Pomology, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Regional Economics, Resources and Environmental Biotechnology, Rural Development and Management, Safety of Agricultural Products, Seed Science, Sociology, Soil and Water Conservation and Desertification Control, Urban Management and Regional Planning, Utilization of Climate Resources and Agricultural Disaster Reduction, Veterinary Biomedical, Veterinary Public Health, Water Dynamics and Hydraulic Machinery, and Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering.
CAU has 13 departments and colleges, with six of them relevant for agricultural sciences.
More information: https://en.cau.edu.cn/.
