School profile:
South China Agricultural University is a national key university, a "2 1 1 engineering" university jointly established by Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Agriculture, and a key construction university of high-level universities in Guangdong Province. The campus is located in Guangzhou, which is known as the "Flower City". In the course of running a school for more than a hundred years, the school has formed an excellent school-running tradition, distinctive school-running characteristics and the school spirit of "Xiu De, erudite, realistic and innovative", and established a multi-level and multi-form school-running system of postgraduate education, undergraduate education and continuing education.
The long history of the school can be traced back to the Guangdong Agricultural Experimental Field and its affiliated agricultural workshops founded by 1909. 1952, during the adjustment of colleges and universities in China, the Agricultural College of Sun Yat-sen University and Lingnan University merged with the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine and the Department of Pests and Diseases of Guangxi University to form South China Agricultural College, which belongs to the Ministry of Agriculture. 1984, renamed South China Agricultural University. In 2000, the state deepened the reform of the management system of colleges and universities, and the schools were placed under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province by the Ministry of Agriculture. In June 2004, 65438+February, it was rated as excellent in the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education.
In the course of running a school for more than a hundred years, the school has formed an excellent school-running tradition, distinctive school-running characteristics and the school spirit of "Xiu De, erudite, realistic and innovative", and established a multi-level and multi-form school-running system of postgraduate education, undergraduate education and continuing education. The school has a complete range of disciplines, including 99 undergraduate majors, 12 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, 1 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, 28 first-class disciplines authorized by master degrees, and 15 first-class disciplines authorized by master degrees. Agricultural pest control, crop genetics and breeding, agricultural economic management, fruit tree science and preventive veterinary medicine are five national key disciplines, agricultural mechanization engineering is one national key discipline (cultivation) 1, and 24 provincial and ministerial key disciplines (including five key disciplines of the Ministry of Agriculture, three first-class key disciplines of Guangdong Province 13, four second-class key disciplines of Guangdong Province and two key disciplines of the State Forestry Administration). Eight disciplines, including botany and zoology, chemistry, agricultural science, materials science, microbiology, biology and biochemistry, environmental science and ecology, and engineering, have entered the top of ESI world rankings 1%.