Beijing Agricultural University
Beijing Agricultural University (BAU), under direct
leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture, is one of the
Chinese key universities. With a long history, a glorious
tradition, and a good school spirit, BAU is an institution
of higher learning of agricultural sciences. She is derived
from the Agricultural College of Capital University, which
was set up in 1905.
At present, BAU has 9 colleges: Agronomy and Crop
Sciences, Animal Science and Technology, Animal Medicine,
Resources and Environment, Economics and Management, Bio-
logy, Fundamental Sciences and Technology, Humanities
and Social Sciences, Agricultural and Food Engineering. The
Graduate School consists of 33 specialities for Master
programs, 22 for Ph.D programs, 3 research orientations for
postdoctoral fellows, and 11 subjects as the national key
ones. The College of Continuous Education stresses on the
education after school, not only offers training courses
and seminars on various agricultural sciences but also
takes the responsibility for training agricultural leaders
at the levels of counties, prefectures, and provinces. BAU
has formed three strata of the higher agricultural educa-
tion system: Undergraduate, Graduate, and Continuous educa-
tions, which have four functions including: scientific
research, agricultural science and technology extension,
and agro hi-technology and industry development.
BAU possesses altogether 1000 teachers, among them:
there are 400 professors and associate-professors, 4 acade-
micians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2900 under-
graduate students, 500 postgraduates, and 100 Ph.D. stu-
dents are studying and working in the university.
BAU has advanced equipment, teaching, and research
methods, moreover owns a key laboratory of Agrobiotechno-
logy opening to the whole nation, a library with collection
of 1 million books implementing open-shelf reading, a
press coming out over 100 kinds of books per year, and the
teaching farm and experiment stations making up 1,600
hectares of farm land.
In the long period of teaching, research and produc-
tion practice, BAU has formed a good school spirit which
includes combining theory with practice, serious teaching
and studying, hard working and plain living, and solidarity
and endeavouring, and a school admonishing which includes
having the greatest esteem for science and devoting to
agriculture. After the founding of new China, BAU has
cultivated 2,000 various agricultural personnel of high
levels.
BAU is situated in the western suburb of Beijing,
having 70 hectares of land with 300,000 square meters of
building.