The China Agricultural University (CAU) is a key national university and directly subordinated to the Ministry of Education, and its president is appointed by the State Council, the central government of the People's Republic of China.
As the oldest higher agricultural educational institution in China, CAU's history dates back to October of 1905, when the College of Agriculture was founded on the former Jing Shi Da Xue Tang (The imperial university of Peking and the present Peking University) by the Qing Dynasty. Since that time there has been a large number of developments.
The CAU has long been a leading agricultural education and research institution of in China. Beijing Agricultural University (BAU) was first selected by the State Council as one of the six key national universities in 1984. Beijing Agricultural Mechanization College was names as the sixty four key National universities in 1960. Currently, CAU is one of the first universities qualified for entering the State "211 project".
With nearly a century of recognition for innovative development, CAU represents a research/educational traditions and a humanitarian style of exactitude and truthfulness, and continues to make creative progress in new, creative and functional ways. In its efforts to promote and contribute to agricultural modernisation and rural development, China Agricultural University has its focus on agricultural sciences and engineering. As a key national multi-disciplinary university, it also has strong interests in the humanities, physics, economics, management and laws. Tremendous efforts are being undertaken to build a university with distinct characteristics and some outstanding disciplines and to become one of the top national universities and internationally renowned. The ultimate goal aims one of the leading comprehensive, research-oriented and internationalised agricultural universities in the world.

At the "Study in China"  exhibition in November, only the College of Humanities and Development will be represented. For information about other departments please consult the website.

The college of Humanities and Development (COHD) has eight departments: Development Management, International Education, Sociology, Law, Science Management, Media and Communication, Foreign Language Studies and Political studies.

A wide range of academic programs are offered by the college which include doctoral, master and bachelor degrees in rural development, management, sociology, regional economics, economic law, philosophy of science and technology, business English, and communication. There is a Sino-Dutch international education program conferring degrees (BSc., MSc.,and MBA of international agriculture) and a professional master program of agricultural extension in the college. The CAU has established sister-relations with Wageningen University/van Hall Larenstein in the Netherlands. Students in the exchange program are not required to speak Chinese, and all lessons will be taught in English. Still, as an individual student you have to meet certain requirements regarding Chinese proficiency, because most of the regular programs are taught in Chinese, and a lot of teaching materials are in Chinese.

If you are not proficient in Chinese and you are not willing to spend the first two years learning Chinese in order to study at a Chinese university, then studying at CAU's International College of Beijing (ICB) might be an option for you. At its establishment in 1995 the ICB gained the accreditation of the North Central Association for High Education of the U.S. Moreover, ICB was assessed by Beijing Municipal Education Commission and authorized to confer degrees. In 1998, ICB received equal co-operation with the University of Luton in the United Kingdom. In 2003, the same co-operation was built with University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom.

Studying at the ICB has a lot of advantages. First of all, you have the opportunity to earn a parallel U.K. degree at a lower cost than in the UK itself. The programmes are English taught and the programme selections are flexible and diverse.

More information can be found at their website: http://icb.cau.edu.cn/homepage_e.htm

More information about regular classes can be found at the main website: www.cau.edu..cn (in Chinese), or visit the English pages http://www.cau.edu.cn/cie/