China Agricultural University is at the forefront of Chinese modern and advanced agricultural education, originating as the Imperial Agricultural University in 1905. Generations of alumni of China Agricultural University have devoted themselves to educating agricultural professionals and other agricultural efforts. After years of development, China Agricultural University has become a multi-science research university, with bases in biological and agricultural engineering.
China Agriculture University conducts extensive international exchange programs. We are trying our best to make ourselves into a comprehensive university.
CAU has cooperative programs with 207 universities in 44 countries, such as United States, Canada, Germany, Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Japan, Korea, Australia, Russia, Israel, Ivory Coast, Guinea and etc. In recent years, CAU focus on cooperation with many top international universities and has successfully made partnership with Purdue University in the United States, Wageningen University in the Netherlands and many others. We have undergraduate programs, exchange programs, international master programs and series of international education cooperation projects. Meanwhile, we have established research centers with many high-level universities and put a special fund to support research projects.
CAU has cooperative programs with 207 universities in 44 countries, such as United States, Canada, Germany, Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Japan, Korea, Australia, Russia, Israel, Ivory Coast, Guinea and etc. In recent years, CAU focuses on cooperation with many top international universities and has successfully made partnership with Purdue University in the United States, Wageningen University in the Netherlands and many others. We have undergraduate programs, exchange programs, international master programs and series of international education cooperation projects. Meanwhile, we have established research centers with many high-level universities and put a special fund to support research projects.
International college Beijing (ICB) was established by China Agricultural University in 1995. The establishment of ICB aimed to explore and develop various forms of international education. At present, CAU has three international collaboration programmes, including the CAU-University of Colorado programme (subjects: Economics and Communication) and the CAU-Oklahoma State University programme (subject: Agricultural and forestry economy management: Agricultural commerce direction). All above three subjects take full-English teaching patterns and the course arrangements and teaching methods are all connected with foreign universities. By now, there are more than 1500 students studying in those three programmes.
China Agricultural University started to recruit international students from the 1954 and up till now, it has accepted more than 3,000 international students from more than 90 countries. In 2012, CAU enrolled 381 international students from 72 countries. Within those, 53% of them were undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students and 47% of them were student visitors who study professional courses, who do research collaboration or Chinese language and culture study. The top ten numbers of Students are from the USA, South Africa, Pakistan, Mongolia, Thailand, the Republic of Guinea, Bangladesh, Vietnam, South Korea, and Kenya.
In the 1950s and 1960s, CAU has recruited 145 Vietnamese students. They were chosen from leaders of the Vietnamese government and outstanding students from Vietnamese schools. After they come back to Vietnam, most of them have become key people in politic, academic and commercial areas. Two of them have become the deputy director of Vietnam government and eight of them have become presidents and vice presidents in school, leaders in government, professors, researchers, factory managers, senior engineers and senior agronomists, etc. At present, an increasing number of international students went back after their studies in CAU and they have made huge contributions to the collaboration and communication in the agricultural area between two China and Vietnam.
Under the collaboration of the Chinese and South African agricultural department, in February of 2011, CAU has signed an agreement of "collaboration postgraduates training programme in agricultural area" with South Africa's Forestry and Fisheries Ministry. At present, CAU has recruited 21 South African students (4 PhD students, 16 postgraduate students and 2 language students). They study in the College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, College of Humanities and Development and Chinese language teaching programme (library undertakes) respectively. In June of 2013, the first-generation students (9 postgraduates) of this programme graduated as scheduled. After two-year's operation, the management of this programme has moved into the right path. This programme has opened a new model of collaboration between CAU and foreign government and it provided an experience for collaborations between CAU and other foreign organisations.
At present, CAU has 52 undergraduate majors, 89 postgraduate majors and 68 PhD majors opening to international students, meanwhile, CAU set up full-English postgraduate teaching programmes which covers 12 majors in four colleges: College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, College of Humanities and Development, college of engineering and college of Economics and Management. In addition, there are more than 100 English teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses opening to international students.
Nowadays, an increasing number of international students choose to come to study at CAU and more and more international students have finished their studies successfully and then made contribution to their own countries. We strongly believe that: CAU carries hope for you and you harvest knowledge at CAU.