Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) is in Nanjing, China, and is a national key university directly affiliated to the Ministry of Education. It names agriculture and life sciences as its distinctive strengths and also teaches science, economics, management, engineering, humanities and law. The university traces its history to 1902 and took its current name in 1984. Its Chinese-language profile, with data as of September 2026, lists 20 colleges and departments, more than 20,000 full-time undergraduates and more than 15,000 postgraduates.
Agriculture is taught in the College of Agriculture, alongside colleges including Plant Protection, Resources and Environmental Sciences, Horticulture, Animal Science and Technology, and Food Science and Technology. The university says it has 133 national, ministerial and provincial research platforms, including the National Center for Soybean Improvement and the National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, and that it works with more than 180 universities and research institutes in more than 50 countries and regions. In 2019 it set up the Nanjing Agricultural University Michigan Institute with Michigan State University.