General Information of Northwest A&F University
Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University is located in Yangling, Shaanxi, the birthplace of Chinese agricultural civilization and a national-level agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zone. First-class universities and first-class disciplines" construction of colleges and universities. The current Party Secretary Li Xingwang and President Wu Pute.
The university has 27 colleges (departments, institutes) and graduate schools, a total of 14 post-doctoral mobile stations, 16 doctoral degree authorization first-level disciplines, 27 master's degree authorization first-level disciplines, 1 doctoral degree authorization category, 17 Master's degree authorization category, 74 undergraduate majors. There are 7 national key disciplines and 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines; Agricultural Science, Botany and Zoology, Engineering, Environmental Science and Ecology, Chemistry, Biology and Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Molecular Ten disciplines including biology and genetics, microbiology, and earth sciences entered the top 1% of the ESI global discipline rankings, and two disciplines of agricultural science, botany and zoology entered the top 1‰ of ESI. At present, it has developed into a higher agricultural college with the most complete agricultural, forestry and water disciplines in the country.
International Exchange and Cooperation of Northwest A&F University
The university insists on opening university, and actively expands international cooperation and exchanges in science and technology education by strengthening substantive cooperation with world-class universities and academic institutions, forming a new pattern of all-round, multi-level and multi-channel international cooperation and exchanges. It has successively established inter-school cooperative relations with more than 152 well-known universities or scientific research institutions in 35 countries around the world, and an average of 1,000 foreign (overseas) scholars come to the school for academic exchanges every year. Cooperated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Arizona to carry out two Sino-foreign cooperative education projects in food science and engineering and environmental science. The school has the qualification to accept Chinese government scholarship students to study in China, and there are 318 international students of various types. The internationalization of the school has realized the transformation from "promoting domestic development from abroad" to "going out and doing things", and actively participates in the construction of the "Belt and Road", and has gradually become a highland for my country to carry out international agricultural exchanges and cooperation and serve the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt. The "Silk Road Agricultural Education Science and Technology Innovation Alliance" led by the establishment has a wide range of influences. Take the lead in establishing 8 agricultural science and technology demonstration parks and 3 overseas talent training bases in countries along the Silk Road. Jointly build the SCO agricultural technology exchange and training demonstration base with the Yangling Demonstration Zone, lead the establishment of the SCO Modern Agricultural Development Research Institute, the establishment of the SCO International Joint Laboratory, and join the SCO University (leading the direction of modern agriculture). Approved to build a Confucius Classroom at Baranovich State University in Belarus.
Scholarship in Northwest A&F University
2022 Chinese Government Scholarship
(Chinese Universities' Program Type B)
This is a full scholarship for designated Chinese universities to recruit excellent international students for pursuing master degree or Ph.D. degree in China. NWAFU is one of designated universities in China and will directly recruit international students funded by the program.