The predecessor of Nanjing Agricultural University can be traced back to Sanjiang Normal School 1902 Agricultural Natural History Department and private Jinling University 19 14 Agricultural Science. 1972 The school moved to Yangzhou and merged with Subei Agricultural College to form Jiangsu Agricultural College. 1979 moved back to Nanjing to restore Nanjing Agricultural College. 1984 was renamed Nanjing Agricultural University.
The school has 19 colleges, including Agricultural College, Engineering College, Plant Protection College, Resources and Environmental Science College, Horticulture College, Animal Science College, Foreign Languages College, Finance College, Grass Industry College, Political College and Sports Department. The school has four first-class disciplines, including crop science, agricultural resources and environment, plant protection and veterinary medicine, and three two disciplines, including national key disciplines, vegetable science, agricultural economic management and land resource management.