1, Tarim University, referred to as Tata University, is located in Alar City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is a comprehensive university with the advantages of agricultural science and the characteristics of life science, and the coordinated development of agriculture, science, engineering, medicine, literature, management, economics, law, teaching, art and history. It is a university jointly established by Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and Ministry of Education and approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee.

2. Xinjiang Agricultural University, located in Urumqi, Xinjiang, is a key agricultural institution of higher learning in the autonomous region. It is a university jointly established by the State Forestry Administration and the People's Government of the Autonomous Region. It has been selected as a founding member of the basic capacity-building project of universities in the central and western regions, the national graduate program for building high-level universities, the key disciplines with national characteristics, the first batch of outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training programs, the reform pilot universities, the outstanding engineer education and training program of the Ministry of Education, the national college students' cultural quality education base, and the National Agricultural College Alliance along the Silk Road. Eight universities including Nanjing Agricultural University, Beijing Forestry University, Hohai University, China Agricultural University, Northwest A&F University, Jiangnan University, Hefei University of Technology and Southwest Jiaotong University supported Xinjiang Agricultural University.

3. The national ranking of Xinjiang Agricultural University is 184, and the national ranking of Tarim University is 263.