Jiangxi Agricultural University is located in Nanchang, the capital of the heroic city of Jiangxi Province. It is a national key university with a long history, distinctive features, multi-disciplinary coordinated development, agriculture as the advantage and biotechnology as the feature.

The school is one of the first universities in China with the right to award bachelor's degree and master's degree, and has the right to award doctor's degree. 1962 started postgraduate education, and it is the earliest institution of higher learning in Jiangxi Province, with the qualification of "recommending graduate students to be exempted from examination". It is one of the four key universities jointly established by the Ministry of Agriculture and the provincial offices of Jiangxi Provincial People's Government, and is the core construction of Jiangxi Province. It has been selected into the national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Colleges and Universities in the Midwest" (small project 2 1 1), the first batch of national education and training plans for outstanding talents in agriculture and forestry, the national "201plan", the "education and training plan for outstanding engineers" in Jiangxi Province, and the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology have decided to jointly launch the new rural development research institute of colleges and universities to build colleges and universities. In 20 15 years, it was successfully ranked among the top 50 universities with typical experience in graduate employment in China.