Scale of running a school
Beiyuan and Qinghe have nine departments and two branches, including horticulture, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, economic management, accounting and finance, secretarial law, information technology, community management, water conservancy and construction engineering, with 9,262 students (more than 5,700 under the jurisdiction of Beijing Agricultural Radio and Television School).
By the end of 2005, the college had set up 28 ordinary higher vocational majors, including horticulture, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, marketing, accounting, logistics management, hydraulic engineering construction technology, numerical control technology application, mechanical and electrical equipment installation and maintenance, 2 five-year pilot majors, 6 adult higher education majors and 32 ordinary secondary vocational majors. It has formed a professional system covering agriculture, machinery, computer, management and other fields, which is organically combined with various professional levels and has outstanding characteristics.
The college has carried out extensive educational cooperation and exchanges with vocational colleges in the United States, Britain, Canada and other countries, opened cooperative education majors such as horticulture and accounting, and introduced advanced educational concepts, which provided favorable conditions for students to continue their studies.
The continuous improvement of personnel training level ensures that the employment rate of college graduates remains at a high level. In 2005, the initial employment rate of graduates from higher vocational colleges reached 98.86%, and the employment rate of graduates from secondary vocational schools reached over 90%.