Nanjing Forestry University

Nanjing Forestry University (NJFU) is a provincial key university co-administered by Jiangsu Provincial Government and the National Ministry of Education. It was evolved to Nanjing Forestry College in 1952 from the Forest Departments of Central University (founded in 1902) and the University of Nanking (founded in 1910). In 1955, the forest departments of Wuhan University, Nanchang University and Hubei Agricultural Collage were merged in. Since 1985, it has obtained the present name. In 2017, NJFU enters into the list of "Double First-Class" Initiative to participate in the country’s construction plan of world-class universities and first-class disciplines. At present, NFU has 24 colleges, offering comprehensive programs with emphasis on resources, ecology and environment. NJFU has 1 national "Double First-Class" construction discipline of forestry engineering, 2 first-level national key disciplines of forestry engineering and ecology, 4 second-level national key disciplines of forest genetics and breeding, chemical processing engineering of forest products, wood science and technology, and forest protection science, as well as 10 Jiangsu Provincial key disciplines. In the fourth round of national discipline assessment, forestry engineering and forestry were awarded A+, landscape architecture was awarded A-, and the A+ discipline ranked first among national forestry universities and Jiangsu provincial universities. Seven disciplines, including Engineering, Plant and Animal Science, Agricultural Science, Materials Science, Chemistry, Environmental Ecology and Biology and Biochemistry, are ranked in the top 1% of ESI discipline global institutions. NJFU has been authorized to provide 8 mobile post-doctoral station programs, 27 doctoral, 78 master's degree, and 69 undergraduate programs. The total number of students is more than 30,000, among whom are 8,500 master, doctoral and foreign students. NJFU has 2350 faculty members, among whom are 2 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 263 PhD supervisors, and 1076 teachers with senior titles. Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", 4 national key research and development Plan projects, 358 National Natural Science Foundation projects, and 3 national "excellent youth" projects have been approved. 12 high-level papers in top international journals such as Nature, Science, and PNAS and 230 highly cited papers by ESI have been published, with an average annual increase of 72% in the number of SCI papers. The number of authorized invention patents has increased by 59% annually and 33 national standards have been formulated/revised. There are more than 50 scientific and technological innovation platforms at NJFU. NJFU has won more than 60 national science and technology awards and more than 400 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, including 2 first prizes of National Science and Technology Progress. NJFU attaches great importance to internationalization and takes an active role in international exchange. NJFU has established long-term cooperative relationships in academic research, teacher training and talent exchange with dozens of universities and scientific research institutions from 20 countries. Many international cooperation programs have been successfully launched, such as the 3+2 program with the University of British Columbia, the Global Initiative Program jointly held by NJFU and Alabama A&U University in the US, the joint talent training projects with the University of Western Australia in Australia, the University of New Brunswick in Canada, RWTH University of Aachen in Germany, the University of Strathclyde in the UK etc. Hundreds of students in NJFU go abroad and around 600 international students come to NJFU to study and exchange annually.