The College of Economics and Management at Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (NWAFU) traces its origins back to 1936, when the Agricultural Economics Group was established at the National Northwest A&F College, making it one of the earliest training bases for agricultural economics and management in China. A graduate program was introduced in the 1960s, and the college began recruiting PhD students in 1985.
The college specializes in Agricultural Economics and Management, Forestry Economics and Management, Rural Finance, Rural and Regional Development, and Resource Economy and Environmental Management. It has 132 full-time faculty members and a student body of approximately 2,000 undergraduate students and 800 postgraduate students.
Research at the college focuses on agricultural industrial economy, rural finance, resource economy and environmental management, poverty alleviation, rural governance, and rural revitalization. The college hosts several research centers, including the China-Russia Center for Agricultural Science and Technology Policy Research, the Kazakhstan Research Center, the Western Rural Development Research Center, the Western Development Institute, the Rural Finance Institute, the Center for Applied Economic Research, the Research Center for Resources Economics and Environmental Management, the Credit Big Data Research Center, and the Agricultural Insurance Joint Innovation Research Center.
The college maintains strong international collaborations, partnering with several U.S. universities, as well as the University of Giessen, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Wageningen University, and Lomonosov Moscow State University.
More information: https://cem.nwafu.edu.cn/en/index.htm.
