Northwest A&F University

Northwest A&F University is a national key university directly under China’s Ministry of Education. Located in Yangling Agricultural High-Tech Industries Demonstration Zone, Shaanxi, China, 80 kilometers from the world-renowned historic and cultural city of Xi’an, it participates in China’s Project 211, Project 985 and Double First-Class initiatives. It is currently China’s comprehensive university with the most complete range of agriculture, forestry and water-related disciplines. Its programs cover 11 categories: agriculture, science, engineering, economics, management, literature, medicine, law, philosophy, history and education. It has distinctive strengths in plant pathology, soil science, agricultural water and soil engineering, clinical veterinary medicine, pomology, animal genetics, breeding and reproduction, agricultural economics and management, crop genetics and breeding, and agricultural entomology and pest control.
It has 23 schools or departments. Agricultural sciences ranks in the global ESI top 1 per thousand. Six subject areas–agricultural sciences, plant and animal science, engineering, environmental science and ecology, chemistry, and biology and biochemistry–rank in the global ESI top 1%. It has more than 21000 full-time undergraduates and over 8000 postgraduate students.
It is qualified to receive international students and is one of the host universities for Chinese Government Scholarship students.