The school consists of eight departments, including biotechnology department, plant science and technology department, animal science and technology department, economy and trade department, landscape department, food science department, basic science department, politics and law department, as well as three secondary colleges and foreign language teaching departments, namely Vocational and Technical Education College, Continuing Education College and International College. At present, there are 20 undergraduate majors and 2 master's degree awarding points in fruit tree science and clinical veterinary medicine. Fruit tree science and clinical veterinary medicine are municipal key disciplines. Crop genetics and breeding, garden plants and ornamental horticulture, agricultural and forestry economic management and agricultural products processing and storage engineering are key disciplines at the school level. There are crop genetics and breeding research institute, fruit tree research institute, poultry disease research institute, rural economic research institute, urban agriculture research institute, international training center of traditional Chinese medicine and other scientific research institutions.
The school is located in the northern suburb of Beijing, facing Huilongguan Cultural Community in the south and Zhongguancun Life Science Park in the north, covering an area of 700,000 square meters. Campus trees, birds and flowers, elegant environment, was awarded the Beijing Garden Unit. The school has complete teaching facilities, including various basic and professional laboratories, language lab, multimedia classroom and computer room, among which the laboratory of agricultural application new technology is the key laboratory in Beijing; There are nearly 70 stable off-campus teaching, scientific research, production and practice bases. The library has a collection of nearly 383,000 books and 20 databases in Chinese and foreign languages, and has established inter-library loan and resource sharing relations with more than 20 units. A campus local area network has been built, with perfect sports facilities such as football field, basketball court, swimming pool and all-plastic standard track and field, and Journal of Beijing Agricultural College is published regularly.
The school has a strict teaching staff, with 37 full-time teachers1person, including 36 professors and associate professors 12 1 person, accounting for 42.3% of the total number of teachers. There are 37 doctors and 0/80 masters, accounting for 58.5% of the total number of teachers.
There are 7072 students in this school. Among them, there are 5440 undergraduates, 79 postgraduates, higher vocational and technical education121person, and 342 adults. It has formed a multi-type and multi-level talent training system with undergraduate as the main body, postgraduate education, higher vocational and technical education and adult higher education. The school regards Beijing urban modern agriculture as the fundamental task of cultivating compound and applied qualified talents, and has formed a fine tradition of "working hard, being diligent in practice, advocating science and facing the grassroots". Since 1978, it has trained 1 10,000 people in Beijing and some provinces (cities). Most of them have become the backbone of grass-roots production, scientific research and management, and many of them have taken up leadership positions at all levels and made positive contributions.
According to the characteristics of Beijing's suburban economy, the school has actively carried out scientific research, technology promotion and promoting agriculture through science and education, and achieved remarkable economic, social and ecological benefits. For three years in a row, the school won the national "advanced collective of the pilot project of revitalizing the village through science and education". In 2002, it was awarded the title of "Industry-University-Research Advanced Collective for Work", and in 2003, it was awarded the titles of "National Advanced Collective for Agricultural Science Popularization Demonstration", "Beijing Industry-University-Research Advanced Collective" and "Beijing Advanced Unit for Supporting Mountainous Area Construction". The school adheres to an open and socialized education, attaches importance to strengthening foreign cultural exchanges and international cooperation, and has established cooperative relations with international universities such as Britain, Japan, the United States, Australia and Kazakhstan. The "3+ 1" training mode was launched in cooperation with Harper Adams University College in the UK, and 1 12 students were enrolled in the international college of the school.
The school attaches great importance to the cultivation and improvement of students' comprehensive quality and has won special prizes in various competitions in Beijing for many times. Students' social practice won the "Excellent Team of Social Practice of Capital University Students" and the school won the "Advanced Unit of Social Practice of Capital University". At the same time, the school attaches great importance to students' ideological and moral education and strives to create a good campus cultural atmosphere. It has been awarded honorary titles such as "Beijing Civilized Campus" and "Capital Spiritual Civilization Unit".
The development goal of 265438+before the 20th century 10 is to build Beijing Agricultural College into a modern agriculture and forestry university with distinctive characteristics, some disciplines reaching the domestic advanced level, and having a certain reputation in the whole country, with agricultural characteristics as the main feature among Beijing municipal universities.