Northwest A&F University is a comprehensive national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, and one of the national "985 Project" key construction universities. It was formed by the merger of seven scientific and educational institutions in Yangling in September 1999. The history of the school can be traced back to the National Northwest Agricultural and Forestry College founded by Mr. Yu Youren and General Yang Hucheng in 1934.
16 college (department) has 59 undergraduate majors, covering 7 disciplines including agriculture, science, engineering, economics, management, literature and law. Among them, there are 5 undergraduate and postgraduate majors, 2 majors in the national life science and technology talent training base and 9 provincial famous brands. Undergraduate students1more than 7000 people. The school adheres to the principle of "thick foundation, wide caliber, strong ability and high quality" and features "innovative quality and practical ability", and implements the multi-mode and diversified talent training mode closely integrated with Industry-University-Research. Since its founding 70 years ago, it has trained and transported more than 654.38+million talents, with graduates all over the world, making great contributions to the development of agriculture and rural society in northwest China and even the whole country.
2. Postgraduate education
Postgraduate education began in 194 1 year, and has a history of nearly 64 years. 1978 The school resumed enrolling master students, and 1984 enrolled doctoral students. The school is the first batch of postgraduate training units approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and the second batch of postgraduate training units approved by the Ministry of Education in August 2003. At present, the school has 4 national key disciplines and 24 provincial key disciplines, 8 post-doctoral mobile stations, 1 1 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, 7 1 doctoral programs, 18 first-class disciplines authorized by master degrees, 105 disciplines authorized by master degrees, and postgraduate degrees. In addition, there are four professional degrees: Master of Engineering, Master of Agricultural Extension, Master of Veterinary Medicine and Master of Landscape Architecture, and teachers in colleges and secondary vocational schools are authorized to study for master's degrees, initially forming a multi-channel, multi-specification and multi-level postgraduate training model.
At present, there are 4086 graduate students, including 982 doctoral students. In the process of postgraduate training, the school aims to cultivate innovative high-quality talents, strengthen the construction of postgraduate tutors, pay attention to the cultivation of postgraduate scientific research ability and practical ability, constantly improve the standardized management of postgraduate students, and explore the postgraduate training mode closely integrated with "Industry-University-Research". Up to now, three doctoral dissertations have been selected as "National Excellent Doctoral Dissertations".
3. Adult education
Vocational education and adult education are undertaken by the Institute of Adult Education (College of Continuing Education). Relying on superior experimental teaching conditions and abundant teachers, we have built a multi-level, multi-specification and multi-type academic education and continuing education system. In vocational education, there are three levels of education: higher vocational colleges, vocational normal undergraduate courses and vocational graduate students. In adult education, there are various forms of college and undergraduate education, such as full-time, correspondence, self-study and so on; Continuing education includes national agricultural management cadre training, forestry management cadre training, entrepreneur training, foreign agricultural government officials training, Shaanxi agricultural leading cadres training, secondary vocational school principals and backbone teachers training, senior agricultural technicians training and other non-academic education.
At present, there are 1 national excellent course (computer application foundation), 1 national teaching reform pilot specialty (higher vocational flowers), 2 provincial teaching reform pilot specialties (higher vocational garden flowers) and 3 higher vocational postgraduate specialties (agricultural economic management, animal nutrition and fruit trees). 53 adult education majors (14 undergraduate, 39 specialties); There are 33 vocational education majors (7 undergraduates and 26 specialists).
After nearly 50 years of development, adult education has established an excellent team of adult education and vocational education teachers, accumulated rich experience in running schools, and formed a complete adult education (continuing education) system. We will continue to intensify reform, take the road of development closely integrated with Industry-University-Research, and strive to open up new areas of vocational education, adult education and continuing education.