Established in 1946, Gansu Agricultural University (GAU) is a non-profit public higher education institution in the city of Lanzhou, Gansu. Officially accredited/recognized by the Department of Education of Gansu Province. Gansu Agricultural University is a large (15,000-19,999 students) coeducational institution, offering courses and programs leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, doctorate degrees in several areas of study.

It is one of the universities on the first list of China's Excellent Agricultural and Forestall Personnel Training Project. This 70-year-old institution has a selective admission policy based on entrance examinations. GAU provides academic and non-academic facilities and services to students including a library, sport facilities and/or activities, as well as administrative services.

History August 1945: College of National North-Western Agricultural established by Ministry of Education.

1950: Its name changed to North-Western Veterinary College.

1958: It moved to Huang Yang town from Lanzhou and combined with the College of Gansu Agricultural. Later it changed the name to Gansu Agricultural University.

1981: Its campus moved back to Lanzhou city.

Academic programs and departments SThere are 15 departments in Lanzhou campus, which including 53 Bachelor programs, eight Master programs, and seven doctorate programs.Statistics shown from official website

Additionally, practaculture science, animal science, and veterinarian have been prized as the National Key Academic Programs.

No.DepartmentProgram names 1AgronomyAgronomy Rural Regional Development

Seed Science and Engineering

Chinese Medicinal Plants Cultivation and Application 2PractaculturePlant Protection Practaculture Science

Practaculture Science (management direction) 3Animal ScienceAnimal Medicine Animal Science 4Animal Science and TechnologyAnimal Science (animal husbandry direction) Aquaculture Science 5ForestForestry Landscape Architecture

Soil Conservation and Desertification Control 6EngineeringElectrical Engineering and Automation Civil Engineering

Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering

Transportation

Agricultural Mechanization and Its Automation

Agricultural Electrification

Agricultural Water Conservancy Engineering 7GardeningGardening Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation 8Bioscience and ApplicationBioscience (animal direction) Bioscience (plant direction, related products)

Bioscience (biomass energy direction) 9Food Science and EngineeringFood Science and Engineering Food Quality and Safety

Wine and enological engineering

Bioengineering 10Environment and ResourcesGeography and rural planning Geographic Information Science

Environmental Engineering

Agricultural resources and environment

Land and Resource Management 11EconomyEconomics Finance

Marketing

Financial Management

Agricultural and Forestry Economy Management 12ScienceApplied Chemistry Applied Statistics

Material Chemistry 13ArtsLaw Secretary

Chinese Language and Literature

Management of Human Resources

Labor and Social Security 14Computer Technology/ComputingElectronic Information Engineering Computer Science and Technology 15Foreign LanguageEnglish Language and Literature Business English

References

External links University website