Northwest A&F University (NWAFU; ) is a national public university located in Yangling District, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. By April 2013, the university had 1,661 faculty members and 28,964 students.

History

The State Council agreed to merge 7 organizations as new Northwest A&F University in a reply to the proposal drafted by Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Province Government. A financial budget of 600,000,000 RMB was granted as start fund and further investment plan as well as related issue such as reshuffle were also briefly stated in this official reply. On 11 September 1999, a central government delegation led by Vice Premier Li Lanqing attended the opening ceremony and made the announcement.

List of presidents

President

Communist Party Committee Secretary of A&F

Rankings and reputation

The university ranks as Top 3 research and teaching quality in China's agriculture universities and is a member of "Project 985" club which is an organization of 39 reputable universities in China. Northwest A&F University's research achievements are dominant in the fields of agriculture biology including wheat breeding, entomology, agriculture resource management, horticulture, plant protection, food science (especially in Enology), forestry and veterinary. Besides, the university is also reputable in agricultural water conservancy, agriculture economics and management, agriculture mechanics and information engineering and ancient agricultural history research. In 2017, Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked the university within the 801-1000 band globally. The overall global ranking of NWAFU by the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Rankings 2024 is 374. In 2023, Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranked the university at 301-400 band globally. In 2024, the "Agriculture Science" subject was ranked 4th globally by U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Rankings. Meanwhile, "Plant and Animal Science" was ranked 33th globally by the same ranking. Regarding scientific research output, the Nature Index 2022 placed NWAFU 334th in the world.