Beijing Forestry University

Beijing Forestry University is a national key university in the Haidian district of Beijing, China, administered by the Ministry of Education and co-built with the State Forestry Administration, and it is placed in the 731-740 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.北京林业大学是一所位于中国北京市海淀区的全国重点大学，由教育部直属并与国家林业局共建，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 731-740 区间。

It grew out of the forestry programme of the Imperial University of Peking of 1902 and was formally established as the Beijing Forestry College on 16 October 1952 in a national reorganisation of faculties, taking its present name in 1985.其办学渊源可追溯至 1902 年京师大学堂农业科林学目，1952 年 10 月 16 日在全国院系调整中正式组建北京林学院，1985 年改用现名。

Forestry and landscape architecture are its Double First-Class disciplines, it is a 211 Project university, its OpenAlex record lists 41,008 research works and 2,411,878 citations, and it appears in the 601-700 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.林学与风景园林学是其「双一流」建设学科，该校亦为「211 工程」高校；其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 41,008 项、被引 2,411,878 次，并在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 601-700 区间。

History

• The university's history is traced to 1902, when forestry was taught within the agriculture programme of the Imperial University of Peking, the institution that became Peking University.该校的历史可追溯至 1902 年，当时林学课程设于京师大学堂的农业科，后者即后来的北京大学。

• During the nationwide restructuring of higher education in 1952, the forestry department of Beijing Agricultural University and that of Hebei Agricultural College were merged to form the Beijing Forestry College.在 1952 年全国高校院系调整中，北京农业大学森林系与河北农学院森林系合并，组建北京林学院。

• Its first temporary campus was the Dajue Temple in the Western Hills of Beijing, before the institution moved to its permanent site.其最初临时校址设于北京西山的大觉寺，此后学校迁往永久校址。

• In 1956 the landscape architecture department of Beijing Agricultural University and part of the architecture department of Tsinghua University were merged into the college.1956 年，北京农业大学造园系与清华大学建筑系部分专业并入该学院。

• In 1960 the college was designated one of the sixty-three national key institutions of higher education, and it was one of the eight colleges on the Xueyuan Road higher education belt.1960 年，该学院被列为全国六十三所重点高等院校之一，也是学院路八大学院之一。

• In 1964 the landscape architecture programme was criticised in a political campaign as serving bourgeois interests, and in 1965 the programme was closed and its department abolished.1964 年，其园林专业在一场政治运动中被指为「为资产阶级服务」；1965 年该专业被迫停办，园林系建制随后被撤销。

• In 1969, during the Cultural Revolution, the college was among thirteen Beijing institutions evacuated to other provinces and began moving to Yunnan.1969 年文化大革命期间，该学院被列入北京疏散至外地的十三所高校之一，开始迁往云南。

• Its original campus on Xueyuan Road in Haidian was occupied by other bodies, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and several universities.其位于海淀区学院路的原校址被中国科学院、中国农业科学院以及若干高校等单位占用。

• Staff were dispersed and equipment destroyed during the move, and the college was effectively dissolved until the State Council intervened to prevent its abolition.搬迁过程中人员散失、物资损毁严重，学院几近解散，后经国务院过问才免于彻底撤销。

• In 1970 the staff were concentrated at Lijiang with a plan to rename the college the Lijiang Forestry College, before it moved to Xiaguan and took the name Yunnan Forestry College.1970 年全校教职工集中于丽江，拟更名「丽江林学院」，随后转迁下关，并正式更名为云南林业学院。

• In 1973 it moved again to Qiumuyuan in Anning county near Kunming, and the forestry department of Yunnan Agricultural University was merged into it in the same year.1973 年，学校再次迁往昆明安宁县楸木园；同年云南农业大学林学系并入该校。

• In 1978 the college began to press for a return to Beijing, and in 1979 the State Council approved its restoration at the original site under the name Beijing Forestry College.1978 年学校开始争取返京复校，1979 年经国务院批准，在北京原址复校并恢复「北京林学院」校名。

• The restoration involved serious property disputes, and the college recovered only part of its former land, with the campus area 40.5 per cent smaller than before the evacuation.复校面临严重的产权争议，学院仅收回部分原有土地，校园面积较外迁前减少 40.5%。

• The college's botanical garden, which held rare specimen trees, was destroyed and its site allocated to the Institute of Semiconductors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.该校含大量珍稀标本树种的植物园被毁，其原址被划拨给中国科学院半导体研究所。

• In 1977, as the national entrance examination was restored, the landscape architecture programme resumed recruitment and its department was re-established.1977 年全国恢复高考背景下，园林专业恢复招生，园林系随之恢复建制。

• That department developed into one of China's best-known centres for landscape architecture and garden design, becoming the College of Landscape Architecture in 1985.该系逐步发展为中国景观建筑与园林设计领域最知名的学科点之一，并于 1985 年成为园林学院。

• In 1981 the institution became one of the first in China authorised to confer doctoral and master's degrees.1981 年，该校成为全国首批具有博士、硕士学位授予权的高校之一。

• In 1984 Deng Xiaoping wrote the name of the institution in calligraphy, and in 1985 the Ministry of Forestry approved its renaming as Beijing Forestry University.1984 年邓小平为该校题写校名；1985 年经林业部批准，北京林学院更名为北京林业大学。

• In 1996 the university was selected in the first group of 211 Project institutions, one of the earliest forestry universities in that programme.1996 年，该校入选首批「211 工程」重点建设高校，是该项目中最早的林业类大学之一。

• It was permitted to pilot a graduate school in 2000 and formally established one in 2004, and in 2005 it gained the right to select undergraduates independently.该校 2000 年获准试办研究生院、2004 年正式建立研究生院，并于 2005 年获得本科自主选拔录取资格。

• In 2008 it joined the national pilot for the advantageous discipline innovation platform, and in 2010 it secured co-construction support from the Ministry of Education and the State Forestry Administration.2008 年该校入选国家「优势学科创新平台」建设项目试点高校；2010 年获教育部与国家林业局共建支持。

• In 2011 it joined ten other specialist universities in forming the Beijing Higher Engineering University Alliance.2011 年，该校与其他十所行业特色高校共同组建北京高科大学联盟。

• In 2012 it led the creation of China's first forestry collaborative innovation centre, on the efficient cultivation and use of forest resources.2012 年，该校牵头成立中国第一个林业协同创新中心——「林木资源高效培育与利用」协同创新中心。

• In 2016 its high-precision innovation centre for molecular design breeding of forest trees was selected in the second batch of Beijing municipal high-precision innovation centres.2016 年，其「林木分子设计育种高精尖创新中心」入选北京市第二批高精尖创新中心。

• In 2017 the university entered the list of world-class discipline construction universities, with forestry and landscape architecture named as construction disciplines.2017 年，该校入选世界一流学科建设高校名单，林学与风景园林学两个学科入围建设学科。

• A new campus in Xiongan is under construction and is scheduled to begin teaching in September 2027.其雄安校区正在建设中，计划于 2027 年 9 月开始办学。

Academics

• The university is organised into thirteen colleges and offers fifty-six undergraduate programmes, thirty-five doctoral points and seventy-three master's points.该校设十三个学院，开设五十六个本科专业，并拥有三十五个博士点与七十三个硕士点。

• Its disciplines combine agriculture, science, engineering, management, economics, literature, law and philosophy, with forestry, biology and forestry engineering as its defining strengths.其学科涵盖农、理、工、管、经、文、法、哲，以林学、生物学与林业工程为特色。

• It holds one first-level national key discipline containing seven second-level key disciplines, two further second-level national key disciplines and one national key discipline under cultivation.该校拥有一个一级学科国家重点学科（含七个二级学科国家重点学科）、两个二级学科国家重点学科与一个国家重点（培育）学科。

• A further ten disciplines are key disciplines of the State Forestry Administration, alongside four Beijing municipal second-level key disciplines and one municipal interdisciplinary key discipline.另有十个学科为国家林业局重点学科，此外还有一个北京市重点一级学科（含三个二级学科）、四个北京市二级重点学科与一个北京市重点交叉学科。

• In December 2010 the university had 26,347 students, including 13,079 undergraduates, 3,095 postgraduate students and 8,671 continuing education students.2010 年 12 月，该校有在校生 26,347 人，其中本科生 13,079 人、研究生 3,095 人、各类继续教育学生 8,671 人。

• It employed 1,079 full-time teachers, of whom 640 held senior professional titles, together with four academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.该校有专任教师 1,079 人，其中 640 人具有高级职称，并有中国工程院院士 4 人。

• Its faculty also included eight nationally recognised experts, four Changjiang Scholars, one chief scientist of a 973 project and 107 recipients of the State Council special allowance.其教师队伍还包括国家级有突出贡献专家 8 人、长江学者 4 人、973 项目首席科学家 1 人，以及享受国务院政府特殊津贴者 107 人。

• Research platforms include the National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding and a national engineering technology research centre.其科研平台包括林木育种国家工程实验室与一个国家工程技术研究中心。

• It also operates a national field station, four Ministry of Education key laboratories, three ministry engineering technology centres and five State Forestry Administration key laboratories.该校还设有一个国家野外台站、四个教育部重点实验室、三个教育部工程技术研究中心与五个国家林业局重点实验室。

• A Beijing municipal key laboratory and five State Forestry Administration observation stations complete its research infrastructure.一个北京市重点实验室与五个国家林业局定位观测站，构成其科研基础设施的其余部分。

• The university states its educational philosophy as Zhi Shan Zhi Shui, Shu Mu Shu Ren, meaning to know the mountains and waters and to cultivate both trees and people.该校将其办学理念表述为「知山知水、树木树人」。

• It has trained more than sixty thousand specialists and a number of foreign students, among them twelve academicians of the Chinese academies and twelve provincial or ministerial leaders.该校已为国家培养六万多名高级专门人才与一批外国留学生，其中包含 12 名两院院士与 12 名省部级领导。

• Its forestry and landscape architecture programmes are the most competitive in the country, and admission is through the national college entrance examination.其林学与风景园林类专业在全国最具竞争力，录取通过全国高考进行。

• Graduate education is organised through a graduate school formally established in 2004, covering doctoral, master's and professional degree programmes.其研究生教育由 2004 年正式建立的研究生院组织，涵盖博士、硕士与专业学位项目。

Campus

• The main campus is on Qinghua East Road in the Haidian district of Beijing, forming part of a teaching consortium with sixteen universities on the neighbouring Xueyuan Road.主校区位于北京市海淀区清华东路，与毗邻学院路的十六所高校构成教学共同体。

• The main campus covers 669 mu, the Jiufeng campus 750 mu and the university's experimental forest farm 10,870 mu, giving a total area of 12,289 mu.本部校园占地 669 亩，鹫峰校区占地 750 亩，学校实验林场占地 10,870 亩，总占地面积 12,289 亩。

• Its geographic coordinates are approximately 39.9075 degrees north and 116.39723 degrees east, in the north-western part of Beijing.其地理坐标约为北纬 39.9075 度、东经 116.39723 度，位于北京市西北部。

• The library's new building was completed in 2004 with a floor area of 23,400 square metres, ten reading rooms and 3,258 seats.其图书馆新馆于 2004 年建成，建筑面积 23,400 平方米，设十个阅览室、共 3,258 个座位。

• The library holds more than 900,000 print volumes, over six hundred items of audio-visual material, more than ten thousand multimedia discs and over a thousand theses.该馆藏有纸质文献 90 余万册、音像资料 600 多盒、多媒体光盘 10,000 余件与博硕士论文 1,000 多篇。

• Dining provision includes several student canteens with a combined dining area of more than 11,000 square metres, serving over ten thousand staff and students.其餐饮设施包括多个学生食堂，合计就餐面积 11,000 余平方米，可供全校一万多名师生用餐。

• Thirteen student residence buildings accommodate more than 27,000 students on campus.校内十三幢学生公寓楼可容纳 27,000 余名学生住宿。

• The experimental forest farm is the Jiufeng National Forest Park, whose main peak rises to 465 metres and whose highest point at 1,153 metres is the second highest in the Haidian district.其实验林场即鹫峰国家森林公园，鹫峰主峰海拔 465 米，公园最高峰 1,153 米，为海淀区第二高峰。

• The new Xiongan campus, under construction for teaching from September 2027, will extend the university beyond its Beijing sites.正在建设、拟于 2027 年 9 月开始办学的雄安校区，将把该校的布局扩展到北京各校区之外。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Beijing Forestry University is placed in the 731-740 band, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，北京林业大学处于 731-740 区间。此排名以官方榜单为准。

• It was 629th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and placed in the 601-700 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 629；在软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 601-700 区间。

• It was not placed in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。

• OpenAlex attributes 41,008 works and 2,411,878 citations to the institution, a research output shaped by its concentration in forestry and the biological sciences.OpenAlex 记录该校 41,008 项成果与 2,411,878 次被引，其科研产出受林学与生物科学的集中度影响。

• Forestry and landscape architecture are named as its Double First-Class construction disciplines, the university's strongest subjects by national evaluation.林学与风景园林学被列为其「双一流」建设学科，也是该校在全国学科评估中最强的学科。

• Its national key disciplines in forestry, tree genetics and breeding, and soil and water conservation give it a defined role in Chinese forestry research and in the drafting of national forestry standards.其林学、林木遗传育种与水土保持等国家重点学科，使该校在中国林业研究以及国家林业标准的制定中具有明确角色。

• The university's platforms, including the National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding, connect its research to national forestry policy and planting programmes.其包括林木育种国家工程实验室在内的科研平台，把研究与国家林业政策及造林工程相衔接。

• As one of the 211 Project universities and a Double First-Class institution, it is treated as a leading specialist forestry university in China.作为「211 工程」与「双一流」高校，它被视为中国领先的林业特色大学。

• Its landscape architecture school is regarded as the strongest in China, a reputation built from the department restored in 1977.其园林学院被公认为中国最强，这一声誉源自 1977 年恢复的园林系。

• The university's graduates occupy senior positions in Chinese forestry administration, research institutes and the landscape design profession.其毕业生在中国林业管理部门、科研院所与景观设计行业中担任要职。

Student life

• The university's stated philosophy, Zhi Shan Zhi Shui, Shu Mu Shu Ren, links the study of forests and water to the cultivation of people.其办学理念「知山知水、树木树人」把对山林水泽的研究与对人的培养相联结。

• Its Xiongan campus under construction points to a student body spread over two Beijing sites and a new campus in Hebei from 2027.正在建设的雄安校区意味着，自 2027 年起其学生群体将分布于北京两处校址与河北的新校区。

• The experimental forest farm at Jiufeng provides students in forestry and conservation with field sites inside a national forest park.鹫峰实验林场为国家森林公园，为林学与保护类学生提供园内野外实习场地。

• Dining halls, thirteen residential buildings and the library's ten reading rooms form the practical infrastructure of campus life.食堂、十三幢宿舍楼与图书馆的十个阅览室，构成校园生活的实际基础设施。

• The university sits within a teaching consortium of sixteen universities on Xueyuan Road, allowing students to take courses across institutions.该校处于学院路十六所高校组成的教学共同体之中，学生可跨校选课。

• Its landscape architecture tradition gives the campus a distinctive identity in garden design, and the college is a national reference point for the discipline.其园林传统使校园在园林设计方面具有独特身份，该学院也是该学科的国家参照点。

• Field practice in the experimental forest and at observation stations is a normal part of study for students in forestry and related disciplines.在实验林场与观测站开展野外实习，是林学及相关学科学生学习的常规组成部分。

• Because the campus is in Haidian among Beijing's university district, students have access to the wider academic and cultural life of the capital.由于校园位于北京高校云集的海淀区，学生可接触首都更广泛的学术与文化生活。

• Graduates work in forestry, landscape architecture, environmental management and the timber industry, fields tied directly to the university's founding mission.其毕业生就业于林业、园林景观、环境管理与木材工业，这些领域与该校的创办使命直接相关。

Notable people

• Deng Xiaoping wrote the institution's name in calligraphy in 1984, and in 1985 the Ministry of Forestry approved the change of name to Beijing Forestry University.邓小平于 1984 年为该校题写校名，1985 年林业部批准其更名为北京林业大学。

• The forestry departments of the two agricultural universities plus the landscape and architecture faculties of 1956 supplied the institution's founding academic staff.两所农学院的森林系，加上 1956 年并入的造园与建筑类师资，构成该校创校的学术队伍。

• Four academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering work at the university, among a faculty of 1,079 full-time teachers.该校有 4 位中国工程院院士，其专任教师总数为 1,079 人。

• Twelve academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering are counted among its more than sixty thousand graduates.其六万余名毕业生中，有 12 人当选中国科学院或中国工程院院士。

• Its teaching staff have won awards including the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress and national honours for outstanding scientists and teachers.其教师曾获何梁何利科技进步奖以及全国优秀科技工作者与优秀教师等国家级荣誉。

• Twelve provincial or ministerial level leaders are listed among its graduates, together with specialists who led China's forestry campaigns.其毕业生中包括 12 名省部级领导，以及主导中国林业造林事业的专门人才。

• Faculty at the National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding work on genetic improvement of forest trees, a field with direct application to national planting programmes.林木育种国家工程实验室的教师从事林木遗传改良研究，该领域直接服务于国家造林工程。

• Researchers at the university work on the efficient cultivation and use of forest resources through the collaborative innovation centre it led from 2012.该校研究人员通过其 2012 年牵头成立的协同创新中心，从事林木资源高效培育与利用研究。

• Staff and graduates of its landscape architecture school have shaped Chinese garden design practice, a role recognised since the department's restoration in 1977.其园林学院的师生塑造了中国的园林设计实践，这一作用自 1977 年该系恢复以来即获公认。

• Grassroots research stations operated by the university involve staff and students in long-term forest observation across China.该校运营的基层研究站点使师生参与中国各地的长期森林观测。