Nanjing Forestry University is located in the foothills of the scenic Zijin, the basaltic rippling blue lake, is a central and local governments to build and place-based multidisciplinary management of the University. School, formerly the Central University (founded in 1902) and the University of Nanking Forest Department (founded in 1888) Forest University, in 1952 merged to form the Nanjing Forestry University. 1955 years in the Department of Agriculture Lin (Wuhan University, Nanchang University and Hubei, the merger of the Department of Agriculture Forest) into, in 1972 changed its name to the Nanjing Institute of Forest Products Industry, 1983 to restore the name of the Nanjing Forestry University, in 1985 changed its name to Nanjing Forestry University .

Schools are now equipped with College of Forest Resources and Environment, Institute of Wood Industry, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Civil Engineering Institute, School of Economics and Management, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Information Science and Technology Institute, School of Landscape Architecture, Science, Foreign Languages College Institute of Art and Design, furniture and industrial design institute, College of Light Industry Science and Engineering, Automotive and Transportation Engineering, Graduate School of Applied Technology Institute, School of Continuing Education, International Education, the Ministry of Education and Sports School of Public Private South 21 a hospital (the Department), 60 departments (the Department).

Schools are four post-doctoral mobile stations, three doctoral-level disciplines, 30 doctoral and PhD authorized areas, two master's degree level subjects, the 54 master's degree and a master's degree authorization points and 12 professional field of Degree Authorization areas, with master's, doctorate and associate professor of the overall award, the professor's assessment of the right qualifications. Existing forestry project a national-level key disciplines disciplines, ecology, forest genetics and breeding, chemical processing of forest products, wood science and technology, forest protection, etc. 5 national key disciplines two disciplines, 10 provincial and ministerial level key disciplines .

School students nationwide, the existing 56 degree, which features professional-level building at 3, three provincial-level professional brand, brand professional building at the provincial level two, seven provincial-level professional characteristics, provincial characteristics point of a professional building. Model has a state-level innovation and personnel training an experimental zone, provincial training base model innovation experiment 1, the provincial team of outstanding teaching a provincial scientific and technological innovation a team, three-level Courses, provincial products ( excellent) Course 26. Schools are state-level experimental teaching demonstration center 1, provincial experimental teaching demonstration center 7. The results of a national teaching a total of one first prize, second prize 4; was the outcome of the provincial education a top award, first prize for six, 12 second prize. Schools in 2005 with outstanding results, through the Ministry of Education to assess the level of undergraduate teaching. Existing types of more than 26,000 students, including Master of Dr. and graduate students, more than 2800 foreign students. The school has trained for more than 80,000 building professionals.

Schools are more than 1,100 full-time teachers, of whom, the Chinese Academy of Engineering two, six external academicians, doctoral tutor 128; with 147 titles is high, said 351 people. School covers an area of 3,780,000 square meters (approximately 5668 acres), in which the new campus covers an area of 1257 mu, Xiashu Jurong campus covers an area of 4370 mu, and other training centers Jiangning project covers an area of 41 acres. Existing teaching and research equipment gross 270 million yuan, the total amount of library literature paper 1570000. Campus network backbone to Gigabit bandwidth, covering the whole school.

Schools in the existing "tree of genetic and biotechnology Province Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education", "Jiangsu Province, fast-growing timber and crops, straw material engineering research center", "State Forestry Administration of the Southern Forest Tree Seed Testing Center" and other 35 provinces, the Ministry of class research and development institutions, key laboratories and engineering research centers, 46 research institutes and research centers colonel. Schools each year more than 500 subjects in the study, in recent years, including shoulder "973", "863", "948" project, state "Eleventh Five-Year" and the Department of scientific and technological support to the project, the provincial total of more than 700 key projects, the National Natural Science a total of more than 200 funds. Research results through the identification and approval of more than 560 patents have been the outcome of 282 countries, the Department of the provincial awards. Among them, the national first prize for an invention, the second prize winner in two, three, one of the四等奖; the National Natural Science Award for a second prize; the National Science and Technology Progress Award 4, second and third 36 items; Department, 235 provincial awards. School hosted the "Journal of Nanjing Forestry University (Natural Science, Humanities and Social Sciences Edition)", "Development of Forestry Science and Technology" and "interior design and decoration," such as academic journals, including "Journal of Nanjing Forestry University" Core Journals in China, "Forestry scientific and technological development "has become the core of China's science and technology journals.

Schools active external academic exchanges, and the United States, Germany, and Canada more than 20 countries by more than 50 colleges and universities or research institutions had extensive academic exchanges and research cooperation. Schools have to recruit foreign students and recruitment in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan qualified students. For the introduction of foreign high-quality educational resources to the overseas launch of the brand characteristics of professional schools, schools with the United States North Carolina State University, Canada UBC University, the University of Toronto, University of Florence, Italy, Vietnam Forestry University and Singapore Institute of Arts, such as Southeast Asia cooperation and exchange agreement entered into, and actively explore in various forms and the cooperation of multi-level mode.

At present, schools rely on a strong geographical focus on the economic advantages and superior human, natural conditions, and actively explore for the economic construction and social development of an effective way, and strive to build schools to the ecological environment and biological resources for training, protection and development and utilization of features , science, engineering, agriculture, culture, management, economics, philosophy, law and other disciplines to coordinate the development of a certain high level of international influence university teaching.