Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) is one of China’s oldest and most prestigious universities of agricultural sciences under the administration of the Ministry of Education. The earliest root of the university can be traced back to the Faculty of Agriculture & 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, and the agricultural faculty became agricultural college in 1927, and it 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. NAU has made numerous achievements in agriculture. The university is proud of being the pioneer of modern agricultural education, research and extension.

• Agricultural University of Nanjing