Plant Science and Technology

Established  in 1951, Qingdao Agricultural University is located in the coastal city of Qingdao, an international city famous for its beer. QAU has always persisted in emphasizing agricultural science as her advantage and distinctive feature, and in the harmonious development of diverse branches including agriculture, sciences, engineering, economics, arts and management. QAU pays great attention to international collaborations and exchanges. It has established relationships with 42 foreign universities and institutes in 17 countries of the world, including the United States, Canada, South Korea and Germany. It is a wise choice to study in QAU.

The College of Botany Science and Technology is developed from Department of Agronomy, which was established in 1951 as the earliest superior and backbone department in our university. For all these years, with the Party’s educational policy, our teaching and administrative staff has kept reforming, practicing and innovating, and gets outstanding achievements in many aspects such as teaching, science and research, and society-service. We have been awarded as Advanced Groups in prospering Shandong province and Shandong people, and in the discipline construction, science and research. Our college’s general party branch has been awarded for many times as Advanced General Party Branch.

Our college emphasizes very much on the construction of learning and teaching atmosphere, and keeps cultivating practicing and multi-skill students with the trinity of knowledge, ability and quality. The employment rate of the four-year students is over 90%, the rate of the student taking part in the postgraduate entrance examination is over 70%, and we have cultivated lots of excellent specialized technical talented students including 2 cadres in the province government or the department of central government, 25 bureau-level cadres and more than 200 office-level cadres.

Now we have teaching and research offices of crops culture, crops heredity breeding and agricultural ecology and cultivation, one provincial key laboratory--dryland technology laboratory, a wheat research office, a corn research office, a dryland research institute and experimental station. There are 41 teaching and administrative staff, who are excellent specialized, intelligent and keeping on innovating.

Discipline Specialty
First-level discipline master degree	Agronomy
Second-level discipline master degree	Crop culture and tillage science
	Crop genetics and breeding
Specialty for 4-year students	Agronomy
	Crop science and technology
	Seed science and engineering
Specialty for 2-year students	Seed management

We have undertaken more than 100 scientific research topics of our country and our province, such as Topic No. 863, Topic No. 973, Technical Attack, and topics of Natural Science Fund. As a result, we have got more than 30 awards including 2 National Science and Technology Progressive Prizes, 3 first-awards of Shandong Province Science and Technology Progress. The 28 monographs and textbooks have been published, and more than 500 papers have been published in the past 5 years. More than 20 varieties of wheat, corn and peanut have been cultivated and approved, which has brought us much economic and social benefit. Botany Science and Technology College, being an important technological backing place for the production of grain and cooking oil in Shandong province, has always contributed a lot to Shandong's spanning from a big province to a strong province in agriculture.

    Founded in 1951, Qingdao Agricultural University(QAU) is a provincial university of Shandong Province of China. It was formerly known as Laiyang Agricultural College and among the first group of universities credited with rights to award bachelor degrees approved by Ministry of Education of China. QAU has always persisted in emphasizing agricultural science as her advantage and distinctive feature, and in the harmonious development of diverse branches including agriculture, sciences, engineering, economics, arts and management. At present, QAU has 21 colleges and one physical education department, offering 53 undergraduate programs and 31 master degree programs.
    QAU now consists of two campuses: One is in Qingdao and the other is in Laiyang, with a total area of 222 hectares and the construction area of 813,000 square meters. The university has set up many perfect teaching practice bases both inside and outside the campuses. The present university has more than 1800 faculty and staff numbers, including 124 professors and 261 associate professors, and most of them have either doctor's or master degrees.
    QAU has established 5 provincial key disciplines such as Animal Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pomology and so on. In addition, the university has also 4 provincial key labs such as Lab of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Lab of Dryland Cultivation Technology, and one Research Center of Shandong Agricultural Bionics Applied Technology, and 22 research centers. Since 1978, QAU has been rewarded 8 National Awards, 65 Provincial and Ministerial Awards, among which 14 were 1st Awards. Especially noteworthy are the achievements of animal cloning technology and bionic pesticides projects. QAU ranks the 34th in the Actual Income List of the Chinese Higher Education Institutes from Science Achievement Transference.
    QAU takes it as her responsibility to revive our nation and agriculture with science and education, and always serves the society actively and vigorously. Since the Tenth Five-Year Program, QAU has undertaken 849 scientific research projects and accomplished enormous social and economic effects. In 1999, the patent of Yinguo, an artificial simulated germicide, was transferred at the price of 5 million yuan. The technology of extracting polysaccharide from the fermented liquid of Maitake(also Polyporus Frondosus in Latin) was transferred at the price of 9 million yuan in 2002. In 2004, the producing and managerial right of a new variety of corn--LN3 outside Shandong Province was transferred at the price of 1 million yuan.
    QAU gives priority to teaching and education, and has always being activated the campus culture of "Virtue, Aspiration, Diligence, Honesty". Being noted for her academic atmosphere and discipline. QAU manages to improve teaching quality continuously, by means of strict teaching and learning. The average passing rate in College English Test (CET-4) for undergraduates in this university exceeds that of the other universities in Shandong province and the top universities in China. Since 2001, 35% of the undergraduates have passed postgraduate entrance examination. The employment rate of graduates is over 90%.
    QAU pays great attention to international collaborations and exchanges. It has established relationships with 42 foreign universities and institutes in 17 countries of the world, including the United States, Canada, South Korea and Germany. In recent years, research co-operation with developed countries and personnel training for developing countries have become two important features of the university. All these activities have undoubtedly stimulated the vigorous development of internationalized education and research in the university.

Category		Tuition（RMB）	Registration fee(RMB)	Accommodation Cost/Day
Chinese Language Learners	Short-term	600/Week	200	Double-bed Room：70yuan/Room   Four-bed Room：90yuan/Room
	Long-term	7000/Semister	300
Degree Students	Bachelors	15000/Year	300
	Masters	18000/Year	300

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