Introduction
---- Nanjing Agricultural University, founded in 1902, has a history of more than 120 years. It is a pioneer in modern agricultural higher education, research and extension in China and the first university in China to offer four-year undergraduate agricultural education.
---- Nanjing Agricultural University (hereinafter referred to as NAD) is a multi-disciplinary national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. With agriculture and life sciences as its strengths and specialties, the university has coordinated development of multiple disciplines including agriculture, science, economics, management, engineering, liberal arts and law.
Nanjing Agricultural University today:
---- is one of the "Double First-Class" universities.
---- In the fourth round of national first-level discipline evaluation in December 2017, seven disciplines of the university were rated as A-class (A+ : Crop science, agricultural resources and environment, Plant protection, Agroforestry economics and management; A: Public administration; and A- : food science and engineering, Horticulture). Among them, four A+ disciplines ranked 11th in the country's universities.
----, according to THE Times Higher Education (THE) second World University Impact Rankings, Nanyang Agricultural University topped the world in the SDG2 zero Hunger ranking for the individual sustainable development goal.
---- ranked 2nd and 7th respectively in U.S. News & World Report's latest 2025 ranking of the world 's best universities for plant and animal sciences and the world' s best universities for agricultural sciences.
---- is ranked 14th in agriculture and forestry according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025.
Fourteen subject areas of ----, including agricultural sciences, plant and animal sciences, environmental ecology, biology and biochemistry, engineering, microbiology, molecular biology and genetics, chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology, social sciences in general, clinical medicine, earth sciences, computer science and materials science, have entered the top 1 percent of ESI subject rankings globally. Agricultural sciences and plant and animal sciences, two of which are in the top 1 ‰, are among the world's top disciplines.
| Program | Duration | Language | Tuition (CNY/year) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese Pharmacy | 4 | Chinese | 33,000 |
| Transportation | 4 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Human Resource Management | 4 | Chinese | 20,000 |
| Artificial Intelligence (Engineering) | 4 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Human Geography and urban-rural Planning | 4 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Accounting | 4 | Chinese | 20,000 |
| Information and Computing Science | 4 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Information Management and information systems | 4 | Chinese | 20,000 |
| Information Resources Management | 4 | Chinese | 20,000 |
| Administration of Public Utilities | 4 | Chinese | 20,000 |
| Agricultural intelligent equipment engineering | 4 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Agricultural mechanization and automation | 4 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Agricultural electrification | 4 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Agricultural Resources and the environment | 4 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Agronomy | 4 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Program | Duration | Language | Tuition (CNY/year) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese Pharmacy | 3 | Chinese | 39,000 |
| Chinese Medicine (Professional Degree) | 3 | Chinese | 26,000 |
| Clinical Veterinary medicine | 3 | English | 30,000 |
| Clinical Veterinary medicine | 3 | Chinese | 26,000 |
| Industrial economics | 3 | Chinese | 24,000 |
| Business management | 3 | Chinese | 24,000 |
| Accounting | 3 | Chinese | 24,000 |
| Accounting | 3 | Chinese | 24,000 |
| Crop cultivation and tillage | 3 | English | 30,000 |
| Crop cultivation and tillage | 3 | Chinese | 26,000 |
| Crop genetics and breeding | 3 | English | 30,000 |
| Crop genetics and breeding | 3 | Chinese | 26,000 |
| Information Resources Management (Management) | 3 | Chinese | 24,000 |
| Public Administration | 3 | Chinese | 24,000 |
| Veterinarian | 3 | Chinese | 26,000 |
| Program | Duration | Language | Tuition (CNY/year) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preventive veterinary medicine | 4 | English | 37,000 |
| Preventive veterinary medicine | 4 | Chinese | 33,000 |
| Landscape architecture | 4 | Chinese | 33,000 |
| Food Science and Engineering (Engineering) | 4 | English | 37,000 |
| Food Science and Engineering (Engineering) | 4 | Chinese | 33,000 |
| Program | Duration | Language | Tuition (CNY/year) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese Pharmacy | 1 | Chinese | 33,000 |
| Clinical Veterinary medicine | 1 | English | 30,000 |
| Clinical Veterinary medicine | 1 | English | 26,000 |
| Clinical Veterinary medicine | 1 | Chinese | 26,000 |
| Clinical Veterinary medicine | 1 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Transportation | 1 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Industrial economics | 1 | English | 28,000 |
| Industrial economics | 1 | Chinese | 24,000 |
| Industrial economics | 1 | Chinese | 20,000 |
| Human Resource Management | 1 | Chinese | 20,000 |
| Artificial intelligence | 1 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Human Geography and urban-rural Planning | 1 | Chinese | 22,000 |
| Business management | 1 | Chinese | 20,000 |
| Accounting | 1 | Chinese | 20,000 |
| Crop cultivation and tillage | 1 | English | 30,000 |