Gansu Agricultural University is located in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province. It is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Agriculture and the People's Government of Gansu Province, a high-level university in Gansu Province and a top 100 university in the central and western regions. It was selected into the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions, the education and training plan of outstanding agricultural and forestry talents, the national postgraduate project of building a high-level university, and the national key discipline project.
The school's predecessor was1National Veterinary College founded in Lanzhou in June, 1946. 1950, renamed Northwest Veterinary College; 195 1 changed its name to northwest animal husbandry and veterinary college; 1958 merged with Gansu Agricultural College under construction to form Gansu Agricultural University. 20 12 In June, Gansu Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Agriculture signed an agreement to establish Gansu Agricultural University. The school began to recruit graduate students from 1953. It is the first batch of bachelor's and master's degree awarding units and the second batch of doctoral degree awarding units in China.
The school covers an area of 6.5438+0.65 million square meters, with a building area of 660,000 square meters. There are 23 colleges (teaching departments) and 64 undergraduate majors; There are 4 post-doctoral research mobile stations, 8 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, interdisciplinary doctoral degree authorization points 1 each, and professional doctoral degree authorization categories 1 each.
There are 18 master's degree authorization points for first-class disciplines and 9 professional degree authorization categories; Faculty 1480, full-time teachers 1226, including 589 with senior titles; Undergraduate students 17078, master students 2528, doctoral students 480.