According to Baidu map, Beijing Forestry University is located at No.35, Tsinghua East Road, Haidian District, Beijing. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. It is also the first batch of national key construction universities in "2 1 1 Project" and the national pilot universities in "Innovation Platform for Dominant Subjects".

Beijing Forestry University has distinctive features, based on biology and ecology, featuring forestry, landscape architecture, forestry engineering, soil and water conservation and desertification control, grassland science, and economic management of agriculture and forestry. It is a national key university with the coordinated development of agriculture, science, engineering, management, economics, literature, law, philosophy, teaching and art.