Beijing Forestry University

Beijing, Beijing, China

Public SHANGHAI #83 · 2026Project 211Double First Class

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Next intakeAutumn 2026

About the university

· Distinctive Educational Features

Drawing on its solid foundation in biology and ecology, BFU is a national key university that, in addition to stressing on the balanced and coordinated development of programs in agronomy, science, engineering, management, economy, law, philosophy, education as well as arts, prides itself particularly on its distinctive disciplines such as forestry, landscape architecture, forestry engineering, grass science, and agro-economic management. The university has consistently adhered to a vision that celebrates on “Championship in Earth Stewardship, Leadership in Forestry Education” and taken as its mandatory mission to “adorn a picturesque touch to the mountains, the rivers and the entire terrestrial landscape of the country so as to turn the motherland into a lovely painting created by nature”. Over the 60-old years since the establishment of BFU, more than — domestic and foreign graduates have emerged from the university to become high-level forestry and ecology professionals that contribute significantly to China’s ecological progresses, thriving forestry sector and note-worthy social-economic growth, standing out in particular among which are 16 academicians of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and a wide array of senior technicians, specialists and managerial talents.

· Competitive Academic Disciplines

BFU is a higher education institute authorized by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council (SC-ADC) and the MOE for independent accreditation of professorship, for setting independently up new 2nd-category doctorate and master programs as well as new inter-disciplinary programs under its accredited 1st-category disciplines. The 4th round of National Academic Disciplines Review (NADR) put BFU’s 2 Shuangyiliu (1st-tier vintage) disciplines—forestry and landscape architecture—within the A+ bracket. The university currently offers 1 1st-category national key discipline (which includes 7 2nd-category key national disciplines), 2 2nd-category national key disciplines, 1 national prioritized discipline, 6 NFGA key disciplines (1st-category), 3 NFGA prioritized disciplines, 2 Beijing municipal Advanced-Sophisticated-cutting-edge disciplines, 3 Beijing municipal key 1st-category disciplines (including prioritized ones), 4 Beijing municipal key 2nd-category disciplines, and 1 Beijing municipal key interdisciplinary program. As of the end of —, BFU had made its way into the list of ESI global top 1% in 7 of its disciplines.

· Complete Talent-nurturing System

BFU is currently composed of 16 schools that jointly offer 65 undergraduate programs, 25 1st-category master programs, 16 profession-oriented master programs, 8 1st-category doctorate programs and 7 post-doctorate programs. Among the — students enrolled in BFU at the present, — are working on their respective undergraduate programs, — on master and doctorate programs, and the rest — on various continuous education programs. In addition to the tutorial system and minor-specialty initiative employed to facilitate the students’ educational needs, the university has also launched a wide range of pilot programs to foster high-end innovative talents who have solid interdisciplinary backgrounds—such as the National Science Base Initiative, the National Agro-forestry Talents Nurturing Initiative, the Liangxi Experimental Program, the Innovation Workshop, and the Sino-foreign Joint degree programs, to name just a few. Currently, BFU boasts 12 national 1st-tier key programs, 4 ministry/provincial 1st-tier key programs, and 2 other 1st-tier key programs funded by Beijing municipal government. BFU students have frequently won top awards and distinguished themselves out in a wide range of internationally-acclaimed prestigious contests like the IFLA Landscape Architecture Design Contest for International Students, the Red Dot Award Design Competition, the MCM/ICM Contest, the ACM Programming Contests for International Students, and the ICAN IoT Innovation Contest for University Students and many others.

· Competitive Faculty

BFU has set up a Strategic Advisory Board composed of 46 CAS/CAE academicians in corresponding fields to tap into the intellectual insights of the board members for promoting the university’s long-term development and optimizing the composition and capacity of its current —-member faculty, part of which consists of — full-time academics, including 337 professors and 571 associate professors.

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