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Nanjing Agricultural University

南京农业大学

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Region
Jiangsu
Undergraduate directory
75 listings
Information collected
2026-10-18

Introduction

  • Nanjing Agricultural University was founded in 1902 and has a history of more than 120 years. It pioneered modern agricultural higher education, research and extension in China and was the first Chinese university to offer four-year undergraduate agricultural education.

Nanjing Agricultural University, abbreviated here as NAU, is a multidisciplinary national key university directly administered by the Ministry of Education. It has distinctive strengths in agriculture and life sciences and coordinated development across agriculture, science, economics, management, engineering, literature and law.

It has five academic divisions: Plant Sciences, Animal Sciences, Biology and Environment, Food and Engineering, and Humanities and Social Sciences. It offers 74 undergraduate, 96 master’s and 53 doctoral programs. It has over 18000 full-time undergraduates, more than 12000 postgraduate students and over 2,900 faculty and staff. Since 2017, international student enrollment in degree and non-degree study has exceeded 1000.

NAU today:

  • It is one of the universities in the Double First-Class initiative.

  • In the fourth national first-level discipline assessment in December 2017, 7 disciplines received Category A ratings: A+ in Crop Science, Agricultural Resources and Environment, Plant Protection, and Agricultural and Forestry Economics and Management; A in Public Administration; and A- in Food Science and Engineering and Horticulture. With 4 A+ disciplines, it ranked 11th among Chinese universities.

  • In the second Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, it ranked first worldwide for the individual Sustainable Development Goal SDG2: Zero Hunger.

  • In the 2025 U.S. News & World Report rankings of Best Global Universities for Plant and Animal Science and Best Global Universities for Agricultural Sciences, it ranked second and seventh respectively.

  • In the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject, it ranked 14th in Agriculture and Forestry.

  • Fourteen subject areas rank in the ESI global top 1%: Agricultural Sciences, Plant and Animal Science, Environment and Ecology, Biology and Biochemistry, Engineering, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Social Sciences, General, Clinical Medicine, Geosciences, Computer Science, and Materials Science. Agricultural Sciences and Plant and Animal Science, 2 disciplines, rank in the global top 1‱, placing them among the world’s leading disciplines.

Which undergraduate programs are listed?

ProgramTeaching languageDurationDirectory tuition
InvestmentChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
International Economics and TradeChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Business AdministrationChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Cultural HeritageChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Mechanical EngineeringChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Environmental Science (Science)Chinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Tea ScienceChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Land Resource ManagementChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Public AdministrationChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Plant ProtectionChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Artificial Intelligence (Engineering)Chinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Traditional Chinese PharmacyChinese4 years33,000 CNY / academic year
Financial TechnologyChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Industrial EngineeringChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
BiotechnologyEnglish4 years26,000 CNY / academic year
StatisticsChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Information and Computing ScienceChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and AutomationChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
LawChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Network EngineeringChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
AquacultureChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Tourism ManagementChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Information Management and Information SystemsChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Food Quality and SafetyChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
SociologyChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Human Geography and Urban-Rural PlanningChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
FinanceChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Labor and Social SecurityChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Environmental EngineeringChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Biological SciencesChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Information Resource ManagementChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
TransportationChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Landscape GardeningChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Human Resource ManagementChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Seed Science and EngineeringChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Grassland ScienceChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Vehicle EngineeringChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
BiotechnologyChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Materials Forming and Control EngineeringChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Computer Science and TechnologyChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
E-CommerceChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Smart AgricultureChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Electronic Information Science and TechnologyChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
AgronomyChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
EnglishChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Engineering ManagementChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
EcologyChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
AccountingChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Public AdministrationChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Environmental EngineeringEnglish4 years26,000 CNY / academic year
Applied ChemistryChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Logistics EngineeringChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
ActingChinese4 years33,000 CNY / academic year
Animal ScienceChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Veterinary MedicineEnglish5 years26,000 CNY / academic year
Protected Agriculture Science and EngineeringChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Industrial DesignChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
JapaneseChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Landscape ArchitectureChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
AutomationChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Food Nutrition and HealthChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
HorticultureChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Data Science and Big Data TechnologyChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Rural and Regional DevelopmentChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Agricultural ElectrificationChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Agricultural Mechanization and AutomationChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Food Science and EngineeringEnglish4 years26,000 CNY / academic year
MarketingChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Agricultural Resources and EnvironmentChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Agricultural and Forestry Economics and ManagementChinese4 years20,000 CNY / academic year
Veterinary MedicineChinese5 years22,000 CNY / academic year
BioengineeringChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Veterinary PharmacyChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Intelligent Agricultural Equipment EngineeringChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year
Food Science and EngineeringChinese4 years22,000 CNY / academic year

Tuition is shown in CNY per academic year as listed. Accommodation and living costs are not included. The listings do not specify an admission year, language-test thresholds, scholarship eligibility or program-specific CSCA requirements.

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