Nanjing
Agricultural University (NAU) is not only a national key university
of high learning directly administered by the Ministry of Agriculture
,but also one of the earliest higher education establishments for
agriculture. It has a good reputation both at home and abroad in
all fields of agricultural science. Its predecessors were two agricultural
colleges belonging to Jinling University and Nanjing University
(originally called the Central University). In 1952,the college
was created as a result of the merger of these two agricultural
colleges, together with some departments of the Agricultural College
of Zhejiang University. In 1984, the college was renamed Nanjing
Agricultural University.