Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural

INTRODUCTION

The Graduate School of CAAS (GSCAAS) was founded in 1979. It is one of the earliest institutions approved to confer Master’s and Doctoral degrees in China. Based on 42 institutes which distributed in 18 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, GSCAAS adheres to the schooling philosophy of ‘research-based, quality-oriented, agriculture revitalization must be realized through science and education’ and insists to the school’s characteristics of ‘academy-institute combination, two-phase training’ in nearly 40 years of exploration and development, and has established a successive multi-layer and multi-type education system that covers master’s and doctoral degrees, post-doctorate, international students, professional postgraduates and continuing education.

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences is a national comprehensive agricultural research institution with responsibility for the country's major agricultural basic and application basic, applied research and high-tech research tasks. There are 2 major national facilities, 6 state key laboratories, 32 key laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture; 1 long term national gene bank of crop germplasm resources; 3 national reference laboratories; 4 OIE reference laboratories; 1 national agricultural library possesses more than 2.1 million volumes, providing GSCAAS a sound scientific and technological support and educational resources.

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FEATURES

The programs in GSCAAS are related to four major academic categories of agriculture, natural sciences, engineering and management sciences, including 10 Ph.D. primary disciplines（biology, ecology, crop science, horticulture, natural resource management, plant protection, animal science, veterinary medicine, grassland science and economics, economics and management of agriculture and forestry）and 12 Master’s Degree primary disciplines. The GSCAAS currently holds 51 Ph.D. programs, 62 Master programs, and 2 professional Master’s degrees. It has 13 academicians either from the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Chinese Academy of Engineering Sciences. There are more than 700 supervisors for Doctoral Programs and over 1300 instructors for Master’s Programs. Thus far, the total registered student number exceeds 6000, 3800 of whom are full-time students. A total of more than 14,000 Ph.D. and Master's Degrees have been awarded, making an important contribution to China's agricultural development and economic construction.

The graduate school is open to applications from international students throughout the year and the enrollment commence in spring and autumn. It offers international students the Chinese Government Scholarship, Beijing Government Scholarship，the GSCAAS Scholarship and GSCAAS- Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World ( OWSD ) Fellowship. The study of doctorate and master’s programs generally lasts three years, and the medium of instruction is mostly English or Chinese and English bilingually. Currently, more than 500 international students, including 473 Ph.D. students, are studying at GSCAAS, involving 40 programs and 30 institutes of CAAS. They come from 57 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Oceania. The GSCAAS had conferred degrees on 243 graduates in total, including 193 doctoral students, 50 Master students. Approved by the Ministry of Education, GSCAAS has carried out joint Ph.D. programs with the University of Liège in Belgium and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, and established cooperative relationships with more than 20 universities and scientific research institutions. The level of GSCAAS international cooperation and exchanges has been continuously improved.

Embodying its motto of ‘wisdom, virtue, erudition, and discretion’, GSCAAS has developed into an exceptional, internationally renowned base for cultivating outstanding talents in agricultural fields, seeking after the mission of ‘higher-level, research-oriented, internationalized and distinct-featured ’graduate education.

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