Northwest A&F University is located in Yangling, Shaanxi, the birthplace of agricultural civilization in China and the national agricultural high-tech industrial demonstration zone. It is directly under the Ministry of Education, the key construction universities of the National "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project", and was selected as one of the first batch of national "world-class universities and first-class disciplines" construction universities. Party Secretary Li Xingwang and President Wu Pute.
The school's predecessor was the National Northwest Agricultural and Forestry College founded by 1934. 1September, 1999, with the approval of the State Council, the former Northwest Agricultural University, Northwest Forestry College, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northwest Water Conservancy Research Institute of Ministry of Water Resources, Shaanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shaanxi Academy of Forestry Science and Northwest Botany Research Institute of China Academy of Sciences merged to form Northwest A&F University.
The school is the most complete agricultural college in China, with 26 colleges (departments, institutes and departments) and graduate schools, 13 postdoctoral mobile stations, 16 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, 28 first-class disciplines authorized by master's degrees and 67 undergraduate majors. 7 national key disciplines and 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines; American agricultural science ranks 18 in the world. Journalism discipline; Agricultural science ranks in the top of ESI global discipline ranking 1‰, while agricultural science, botany and zoology, engineering, environmental science and ecology, chemistry, biology and biochemistry rank in the top of ESI global discipline ranking 1%. There are 2 national key laboratories, 1 national engineering laboratories, 3 national engineering technology research centers, 3 national field scientific observation research stations, 62 provincial key laboratories and engineering technology research centers.