Beijing Forestry University (BFU) is a top institution for higher education specialized in forestry and ecological environment, and the university is under the direct leadership of the Ministry of Education of China. Together with many other key universities in China, BFU is located in Haidian District.Founded in 1952， BFU has developed itself from a forestry college into a multi-disciplinary national key university, with forestry, biology and forestry engineering as its leading disciplines, and with an extensive coverage of courses in sciences, engineering, management, economics, liberal arts, law, and philosophy.
Besides undergraduate, graduate and doctoral education, its personnel training system also includes further education and international student education. The university currently provides 57 undergraduate subjects, and it enjoys 15 undergraduate schools, 116 graduate disciplines and 39 doctoral disciplines. BFU has 495 full/associate professors, of whom 127 are supervisors of Ph.D. programs and 5 are academicians of ChineseAcademy of Engineering (CAE). Theadvantage specialties of BFU, such as landscape architecture, biological science, forestry silviculture, soil and water conservation, are in the leading position in China.
The number of BFU’s undergraduate students and graduate students are separately 13,000 and 4,000. From language learners to post doctors, BFU also welcome international students in all of its specialties. By the year 2013, there have been2,500 international students enrolled in this university, from such countries as Korea, Japan, United States, British, Thailand, Indonesia, Austria, Italy, Finland, France, Turkey, Vietnam, Mongolia, etc.
Since 2007, BFU has begun to admit students of Chinese Government Scholarship, and is also listed as the “RecipientUniversity of Beijing Municipal Government Scholarship”. Any prospective students who are interested in the Chinese Government Scholarship should apply it from their own government and related institutes or the Chinese Embassy therein during January to April. The students who are interested in the Beijing Municipal Government Scholarship could apply to BFU directly.
