An Introduction to Nanjing Forestry University
Nanjing
Forestry University (NFU), located in the east of Nanjing, at the foot of Purple
Mountain and east of Xuanwu Lake, is a comprehensive university jointly run and
managed by Central Government and Provincial Government. The University
originates from the Forest Departments of Jinling University(founded in 1888)
and Central University (founded in 1902). In 1952 the university was called
Nanjing Forestry College combined with different forest departments from Wuhan
University, Nanchang University and Hubei Agricultural College. NFU was also
named Nanjing Technological College of Forest Products in 1972. Again in 1983
NFU resumed its name as Nanjing Technological College of Forest Products. In
1985 came into being Nanjing Forestry University.
At present, NFU has 37 Departments in 15 Colleges of Forest
Resources and Environment, Landscape Architecture, Wood Science and Technology,
Chemical Engineering, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering,
Economics and Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, Information Science
and Technology, Graduate School, International Education, Applied Technology,
Continuing Education, Nanfang College and one Physical Education Department.
NFU has been authorized to confer master and doctoral degrees
in addition to conferring bachelor degrees. NFU offers 52 undergraduate
programs; 49 master degree programs, 30 doctorate programs. The discipline of
Forestry, as a first-class discipline which can confer the doctoral degree, is
also authorized to confer a master degree professional in Agricultural
Extension. The discipline of Forestry Engineering, as a first-class discipline
which can confer the doctoral degree, is also authorized to confer a master
degree in engineering. NFU currently possesses 4 Current Centers for
Postdoctoral Researchers with 3 first-class disciplines. There are 6 national
key disciplines of Ecology, Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Wood Science and
Technology, Chemical Processing Engineering of Forest Products, Forest
Protection and Forest Engineering together with another 10 ministerial and
provincial key disciplines.
The total number of students is approximately 25,000, among
whom are 2800 master, doctoral and foreign students. In nearly 50 years, NFU has
fostered 80,000 graduates and postgraduates as well as foreign students, most of
whom have now become the backbones of the forestry development of China.
NFU is authorized to examine quality and approve
professorships. Now NFU has approximately 1100 teaching and administrative staff
including 2 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, other 6 members of
the Chinese Academy of Engineering invited as university¡¯s concurrent
professors, 145 professors and 338 associate professors, 117 supervisors for
doctoral students. NFU has the total area of 373 square meters, the total
teaching and research equipment of the university reaches to the value of 250
million yuan. The university library has a collection of 1,433,000 volumes and
67,000 periodicals in both Chinese and foreign languages. And the campus
broadband network has already covered all the corner of the university.
NFU pays a particular attention to scientific research
programs and has attained great achievements. There are 24 R&D research centers,
national key open labs, engineering centers, institutes, and divisions approved
by the State Forestry Administration and the provincial government, and there
are also 26 university-based research institutions and centers. Since 1978, NFU
has carried out more than 500 various kinds of scientific research projects each
year including ¡°973¡±, ¡°863¡± and ¡°948¡± research programs together with other
research projects at the state, ministerial and provincial levels. More than 279
research projects have obtained fruitful results and various prizes have been
obtained from the state, the ministerial and the provincial government, among
which 4 got the first prize and 35 obtained the second and third prizes of State
Science and Technology Advancement; 1 had the first prize, 2 had the second
prize together with 1 for the third and 1 for the forth prize of State
Invention; 1 got the second prize of State Natural Sciences; and 234 obtained
prizes at the ministerial and provincial levels. NFU issues academic
publications such as: Journal of Nanjing Forestry University (one edition for
natural sciences and the other for humanities and social sciences), China
Forestry Science and Technology, Interior Design + Construction and Forestry
Energy Conservation.
NFU takes an active role in developing academic exchange and
has established intercollegiate ties for academic exchange and cooperation with
50 universities and research institutions from 20 countries and areas worldwide.
The more and more foreign students are coming to our university to study as
language learners, undergraduate, master students and doctoral students. Right
now, some special international cooperation programs have been launched such as
¡°2+2¡± program with University of Alberta; the University of British Columbia,
Canada; ¡°3+1¡± program with Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore, and
especially Virtual Forestry University of International Network which started on
Nov. 2005, this program is jointly launched by University of Toronto, University
of British Columbia and Nanjing Forestry University.
Today, depending on rich regional economic advantages and
excellent human and natural resources, NFU is further deepening its own
educational reform and quickening its development while exploring the effective
ways to provide the services for economic construction and social development,
endeavoring to build itself into an outstanding university both at home and
abroad integrating science, engineering, agriculture, liberal arts, management,
economics, philosophy and law, with a special emphasis on ecological environment
construction and management, development and utilization of biological
resources.
Department of Forest Genetics and Gene Engineering
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science
Department of Silviculture
Department of Botany
Department of Forest Resources Management
Department of Forest Protection
Department of Landscape Architecture
Department of Environmental Arts
Department of Chemical Engineering and Forest Products
Department of Paper-making and Printing Engineering
Department of Bioengineering
Department of Materials and environmental Engineering
Department of Fine Chemicals engineering
Department of Chemical engineering Process and Control
System
Department of Wood Science and Technology
Department of Furniture Design and Manufacturing
Department of Interior Arts Design
Department Heat Energy and Power Engineering
Department of Packing Engineering
Department of Forestry Machinery and Power-Energy
Science
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Automation
Department of Automobiles and Transportation
Department of Industrial Design
Department of Forest Engineering
Department of Traffic Civil Engineering
Department of Building Engineering
Department of Agricultural and Forestry Economics and
Management
Department of Business Administration
Department of Finance and Accounting
Department of Management Science and Engineering
Department of Economics and Trade
Department of Economic Law
Department of Social Sciences
Department of Chinese Language and Literature
Department of Advertising Studies
Department of Foreign Languages
Department of College English Teaching
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Electronic Information and Engineering
Department of Applied Mathematics
College of Continuing
Education
College of Applied
Technology
Ecology
Wood Science and technology
Chemical Processing Engineering of Forest Products
Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding
Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding
Tree
Modification and Provenance Innovation
Silviculture
Forest
protection
Botany
Forest Engineering
Biology
Forest Science
Ecology
Botany
Genetics
Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding
Forest Management
Water and Soil Conservation and Desertification
Control
Forest Protection
Bio-chemistry and Molecular Biology
Silviculture
Ornamental Plants and Horticulture Science
Zoology
Wildlife Protection and Utilization
Physiology
Bio-Physics
Aquatic Biology
Microbiology
Cell Biology
Neurobiology
Development Biology
Chemical Processing Engineering of Forest products
Pulp and Paper-making Engineering
Wood Science and Technology
Mechanical Theory and Design
Forest Economics and management
Forest Engineering
Ecology
Botany
Forest
Genetics and Tree breeding
Urban
Planning and Design
Forest
management
Ornamental
Plants and Horticulture Science
Cell Biology
Silviculture
Forest Protection
Water and
Soil Conservation and Desertification Control
Microbiology
Bio-Physics
Genetics
Wildlife Protection and Utilization
Soil Science
Bio-chemistry
and Molecular Biology
Aquatic
Biology
Neurobiology
Physiology
Zoology
Development Biology
Bio-chemical Engineering
Pulp and Paper-making
Engineering
Chemical Processing
Engineering of Forest Products
Chemical Technology
Wood Science and Technology
Environmental Engineering
Testing Measuring Technology and Instrument
Mechanical Theory and
Design
Measurement Technology and Automation
Vehicle Application
Engineering
Forest Engineering
Road and Rail Engineering
Forest Economics and
Management
Enterprise
Management
Population,
Resources and Environmental Economics
Design
Arts
Ethics
Forestry
Engineering
Agricultural
Extension