The environmental art design major was formerly a landscape architecture design major founded by 1962, and 1995 became an independent major. In order to adapt to the development of the times and the progress of society, and further broaden the professional scope, the environmental art major is separated from the landscape architecture major, and the three-year junior college students are enrolled independently.

Nanjing Forestry University ranks around 90 in the national art environment specialty.

The major of environmental art design in Nanjing Forestry University trains senior engineering and technical personnel who master the basic theories and technical methods of water, gas, sound, solid waste and other pollution prevention and control, have the basic quality of engineers, and have the ability of environmental engineering planning, consulting, design, construction, research and development, monitoring and management.

Nanjing Forestry University, located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, was established with the approval of the State Forestry Administration and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province, and was selected as one of the first batch of universities in China, namely "Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talents Education and Training Plan", "Characteristic Key Discipline Project", "201Collaborative Innovation Center" and "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan".

As a member of the "National Excellent Undergraduate International Exchange Program" and fifteen key universities in Jiangsu Province, it is one of the first universities in China with the right to award doctoral and master's degrees, the right to evaluate the qualifications of professors and associate professors, the qualification of graduate students in Jiangsu Province, the right to independently examine and approve doctoral tutors and the earliest opening to the outside world.

It has become a multidisciplinary university with the advantages of forestry, resources, ecology and environment, and the interdisciplinary disciplines of science, engineering, agriculture, literature, management, economics, philosophy, law and art.