Central South University of Forestry and Technology

Central South University of Forestry and Technology, referred to as "CSUFT", is located in Changsha City, Hunan Province. It is a provincial and ministerial university jointly established by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Hunan Provincial People's Government. , a provincial key university, a "double first-class" construction project university in Hunan Province, selected into the national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Central and Western Universities", the Education and Training Plan for Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talents, the National "Characteristic Key Discipline Project", and the National Construction of High-level University Postgraduate Students The project, Hunan Province 2011 Plan, is one of the universities in Hunan Province with the qualification to recommend graduate students. It is also the first provincial university in Hunan Province to have a graduate school, covering science, engineering, agriculture, liberal arts, economics, law, and management. It is a comprehensive university with nine major disciplines including forestry science, teaching, and arts. It has a postdoctoral research station, the right to confer doctoral degrees and the right to recommend graduate students. One of the school’s predecessors was Hunan Forestry University, an undergraduate college established in 1958. In 1963, under the direct care of Comrade Tao Zhu, an older generation of proletarian revolutionaries, Hunan Forestry College moved to Guangzhou and merged with the Forestry Department of South China Agricultural College to form Central South Forestry College, which was directly under the management of the National Forestry Department. In 2000, the school was transformed into a joint venture between the province and the ministry. In 2005, the school was renamed Central South University of Forestry and Technology. As of June 2023, the school campus covers an area of 1,388 acres, with an experimental forest farm covering an area of more than 70,000 acres (Hunan Beiluoxiao National Forest Park), with a total collection of 2.065 million electronic books; it has a graduate school and 24 teaching units , offering 81 undergraduate majors; 5 postdoctoral research stations, 6 first-level disciplines for doctoral degree authorization, 20 first-level disciplines for master's degree authorization, and 16 professional master's degree authorization categories; there are 2,337 faculty and staff, full-time in There are more than 32,000 students in the school, including more than 27,000 undergraduate and junior college students and more than 5,500 graduate students.