- Nanjing Agricultural University
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Nanjing Agricultural University 南京农业大学 Established Began 1902, became an independent institution 1952 Type Public university Location Nanjing, Jiangsu, 
People's Republic of ChinaFormer names National Central University Website http://www.njau.edu.cn Nanjing Agricultural University, NAU, (Chinese: 南京农业大学; pinyin: Nánjīng nóngyè dàxué) is a public university located in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. It offers courses in agricultural and sciences.
Introduction
NAU is one of China’s oldest universities of agricultural sciences under the administration of the Ministry of Education. The roots of the university can be traced back to the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural History of Sanjiang Normal School in 1902. Sanjiang Normal School later became Nanjing Higher Normal School, National Southeastern University, National Central University and Nanjing University, and reestablished agricultural faculty in 1917. The agricultural faculty became an agricultural college in 1927, and founded the first departments of Agronomy and Horticulture in Chinese universities.
Another main source of NAU is the agricultural faculty of University of Nanking established in 1914 and became agricultural college in 1930, and it established the first faculty of Forestry and department of Agronomics, and was the forerunner of four-year bachelor program in higher agricultural education in China. The two agricultural colleges were merged to form NAU in 1952.
Undergraduate students participate in SRT (Scientific Research Training) program to upgrade their research skills. The Graduate School was established in 2000, which makes NAU one of the 56 universities with graduate schools among more than 1000 universities and colleges in China.
Cooperation since the 1980s with Cornell University, USA, in the field of crop production incubated the State Key Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement at the university and the National Center of Soybean Improvement. The university maintains close relationships with 30 universities in 10 countries.
In the summer of 2007, NAU hosted a group of 15 students and two professors from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. The Wisconsin students were welcomed with class room activities and extracurricular functions put on by NAU students. Relationships were fostered between students from both schools and NAU will continue to host UW students every summer.
NAU staff is involved in the application of research projects funded by governmental and non-governmental sources, such as the sino-foreign governmental framework programs, Asian Link, Asian Facility, Framework Program of the EU and McKnight Foundation in the USA.
External links
- 南京农业大学 Official website (Chinese)
- Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) official website (English)
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