China Agricultural University is located in Beijing, is directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China and Beijing Municipality jointly established a national key university, ranked "Double First-Class", "985 Project", "211 Project", "Basic Discipline Enrollment Reform Pilot", "2011 Plan", "111 Plan", Outstanding Engineer Education and Training Program, Outstanding Agriculture and Forestry Talent Education and Training Program. The enrollment majors of China Agricultural University involve seven university disciplines, including agriculture, engineering, science, economics, management, law, and literature. The university has a total of 18 colleges, 1 entity teaching unit and 1 directly affiliated department, involving 7 university disciplines, including agriculture, engineering, science, economics, management, law, literature, medicine, and philosophy. The school has 49 majors included in 18 major categories.
China Agricultural University has unique advantages and characteristic disciplines, featuring agronomy, life science, agricultural engineering and food science, forming a discipline group with distinctive characteristics and complementary advantages. These subject groups include agriculture and life sciences, resources and environmental sciences, information and computer science, agricultural engineering and automation sciences, economic management and social sciences, and other fields. Through years of development, China Agricultural University has won the top 1% of the ESI global rankings in 14 disciplines, including agricultural science, plant and animal science, biology and biochemistry, environmental ecology, chemistry, microbiology, engineering, molecular biology and genetics, general social sciences, pharmacology and toxicology, immunology, clinical medicine, earth science, and computer science.
China Agricultural University provides students with a wealth of major choices and training models. After entering the university, students can choose to participate in the study of two basic disciplines: biological science and economics. A total of 49 majors are included in 18 categories of enrollment, and students can choose one of them for in-depth study according to their professional interests, employment intentions, and the school's teaching resources and conditions after 1-2 years of basic teaching. At the same time, China Agricultural University also provides six majors, including aquaculture, facility agricultural science and engineering, marketing, public utilities management, grape and wine engineering, and e-commerce, and has specially arranged enrollment in Shandong Province, Fujian Province, Liaoning Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Hebei Province and Chongqing Municipality. After completing the first year of study, students in these majors can go to the Yantai Research Institute of China Agricultural University for teaching and internship until graduation. Students of Yantai Research Institute can share the policies and resources of the university, and can be recommended to study for a master's degree without examination.
In addition, China Agricultural University also provides various forms of overseas exchange and study opportunities, including "2 2" joint training, student exchange, short-term exchange, exchange internship and public study abroad. The school actively encourages students to participate in international exchange and cooperation, providing them with opportunities to broaden their horizons and understand different cultural backgrounds.
According to the Undergraduate Teaching Quality Report (2022-2023) of China Agricultural University, the overall employment rate of the school's graduates has reached 9395%。Of these, 272% of graduates are recommended to study for graduate school without examination, which occupies the most important place to graduate. In addition, 5486% of graduates chose to go on to higher education, including 390 who went on to study abroad. It is worth mentioning that 97% of domestic students choose to go to double first-class universities and top scientific research institutions for further study, which ranks 14th in the country.
Graduates of China Agricultural University have a wide range of employment destinations, covering various fields such as state agencies, state-owned enterprises and institutions, international organizations, and Fortune 500 companies. In addition to agriculture, China Agricultural University also covers a total of 7 categories such as literature, management, engineering, science, etc., reaching the level of more than 90% of the majors as first-class majors, and other disciplines can also be filled in with confidence.
China Agricultural University is a 985 university with great value for money. Although China Agricultural University's enrollment score is relatively low due to the bias against agricultural majors, the university's scientific research strength, discipline strength, further study rate, promotion and exemption rate, employment rate and other indicators are among the top 20 in the country. In addition, China Agricultural University has been selected in the second round of the list of "double first-class" universities and construction disciplines issued by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission, and 6 of them have been evaluated by the A-level in the fourth round of discipline evaluation. All these show that China Agricultural University has rich research strength and academic influence in the field of agriculture.
To sum up, China Agricultural University is a 985 university with rich disciplinary advantages and research capabilities. The school offers a variety of professional options and training models, and has achieved satisfactory results in student employment. Although there is a prejudice among some candidates and parents of agricultural majors, in fact, agriculture is the basic industry for the development of modern society, and China Agricultural University is committed to cultivating high-quality talents with professional knowledge and skills in the field of modern agriculture. Therefore, candidates who are interested in choosing agriculture-related majors can consider applying for China Agricultural University, which will give them an educational platform with broad development prospects.