According to official website of Yangzhou Agricultural College, Yangzhou University is located in Yangzhou, a famous historical and cultural city in China, a livable city of the United Nations and a gourmet capital of the world. It is a university jointly established by the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and the Ministry of Education, a key comprehensive university in Jiangsu Province and one of the top 100 provincial universities in Jiangsu Province. It is the first batch of doctoral and master's degree awarding units in China, and it is also the first merged university in China.

The Agricultural College of Yangzhou University is one of the earliest agricultural departments in China, and its origin can be traced back to the private Tonghai Agricultural School founded by Zhang Jianyu, a famous patriotic industrialist and educator in modern China 1902.