The school's predecessor was the Learning Institute founded by 1903, where Zhou Zhenlin, Huang Xing, Xu Teli and Mao Zedong taught successively. 1951March, Hunan Agriculture and Forestry College, which was developed from minor schools, merged with Agricultural College of Hunan University to form Hunan Agricultural College. President Mao Zedong wrote the name of the school in his own handwriting. 1994 changed its name to Hunan Agricultural University in March.
School profile
The school has 20 colleges, 1 independent college, graduate school and continuing education college, covering agriculture, engineering, literature, science, economics, management, law, medicine, teaching, art and so on 10. National key disciplines 1 discipline, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs key disciplines 1 discipline, 3 provincial-level construction disciplines, 7 provincial-level cultivation disciplines, 2 advantageous and characteristic disciplines in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan and 5 provincial-level key disciplines1discipline.
The ESI rankings of five disciplines, including animal and plant science, agricultural science, environment/ecology, chemistry and engineering science, are among the top in the world 1%. There are 10 postdoctoral research mobile stations,10/1 for doctoral degree authorization, 23 for master degree authorization and 13 for master degree authorization. It is the first batch of units in China to award master degrees.
There are 80 undergraduate majors, including 15 national first-class undergraduate majors and 20 provincial first-class undergraduate majors. There are 30,476 full-time undergraduates (including 5,967 independent colleges) and 5,336 graduate students.
Official website-school profile, Hunan Agricultural University.