College was formally established on the campus of Shanghai Agricultural School in 2002, and its history can be traced back to 1947. Adhering to the campus cultural spirit of "respecting agriculture, being happy with agriculture and being endless" and adhering to the school-running purpose of "serving agriculture and establishing characteristic schools", the College has trained a large number of management and technical talents for Shanghai agriculture. 70% of the management and technical personnel in Shanghai agricultural front are graduates of our school.
The College has four campuses, namely Songjiang Main Campus, Pudong Lingang Campus, Songjiang Maogang Campus and Fengxian Bay Campus, covering an area of 1448 mu. "Songjiang main campus" is located in the old city of Songjiang, covering an area of 157 mu. Songjiang Maogang Campus is located in Punan Modern Agriculture Park, Songjiang, covering an area of 270 mu. It is an open training center of urban agriculture and forestry integrating modern ecological agriculture, teaching practice and social service in Shanghai market. "Fengxian Bay Campus" is located in the May 4th Farm of Guangming Food Group in Fengxian Bay Town, covering an area of 620 mu, and is one of the productive training bases. "Pudong Campus" is located in Shuyuan Town, Pudong New Area, covering an area of 40 1 mu, 20 kilometers away from Pudong Airport and 8 kilometers away from Dishui Lake in Lingang New City.
The college has more than 300 faculty members, including more than 40 with the title of subtropical high or above; There are more than 4000 full-time students. The college has six departments and two departments, namely, Department of Plant Science and Technology, Department of Landscape Architecture Technology, Department of Animal Science and Technology, Department of Agricultural Biology and Ecological Technology, Department of Agricultural Economic Management, Department of Agricultural Information Engineering, Department of Foundation and Department of Ideological and Political Theory Research. At present, there are 22 majors, forming six agricultural professional groups: horticulture technology, landscape technology, animal medicine, biotechnology and its application, agricultural economic management and software technology (agricultural information technology). The college has a perfect agricultural professional system. The proportion of agricultural students is over 80%. Landscape architecture is the key specialty of the State Forestry Administration, and animal medicine is the key specialty supported by the central government. It is the first-class construction specialty of higher vocational education in Shanghai.
The College actively explores innovative talent training mode, and has established stable cooperative relations with schools, enterprises, scientific research institutes and governments with leading agricultural enterprises such as Guangming Food Group and Real Estate Garden, as well as Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Chongming County Agricultural Committee. Up to now, modern apprenticeship and school-enterprise cooperation class between colleges and agriculture-related enterprises 19. The College has established stable and good cooperative relations with Danish, Israeli, French, American, German, China, Taiwan Province Province of China and other relevant agricultural universities and training institutions, and sends more than 100 students and teachers abroad for training every year.
Every year, the college teams up to represent Shanghai in the agricultural project competition of the National Vocational Skills Competition, and has won many first prizes in agricultural product quality and safety inspection, agricultural machinery maintenance, Newcastle disease inspection, artistic flower arrangement and other projects. The college attaches great importance to the docking industry, pays equal attention to both pre-employment and post-employment, and actively participates in the training and cultivation of new professional farmers. Every year, nearly 10,000 new professional farmers and agricultural skill appraisers are trained, and more than 7,000 rural laborers are trained and appraised.
The College won the titles of the 4th National Civilized Unit, China Outstanding Education Contribution Unit in 20 16, Shanghai Civilized Campus, Shanghai Ping 'an Demonstration Unit, Shanghai Garden Unit, Shanghai Advanced Collective of College Graduates' Three Supports and One Support Program, National Youth Science Popularization Demonstration Base and National Vocational Qualification Appraisal Shanghai Vocational Qualification Appraisal Institute. The vocational skill appraisal station of agricultural special jobs under the Ministry of Agriculture of the College was rated as "National Excellent Agricultural Vocational Skill Appraisal Station".