Agricultural University of Hebei (AUH), founded in 1902, as one of the oldest higher educational institutions in China and the pioneer in Hebei educational sector of higher learning, now is one of the key universities of the province.

Its two campuses in Baoding cover an area of 1.6188 million m2 in total where the building area amounts to 0.95 million m2, in addition to 3.3 million m2 of affiliated farmland, over 27 million m2 of affiliated woodland.

The teaching faculty totals more than 2,613 including 223 full professors, 275 associate professors.

Total enrolment in 2005 exceeds 24,271, including 1,060 for doctorial or master degree and 367 in-service candidates for academic degrees of various levels, in addition to over 3,000 participants in adult education.

Number of colleges: 23; Undergraduate specialties:62; Master degree programs: 40; Doctor degree programs: 14 ; post doctorial programs: 2.

Research institutes 16, including the Hebei Research Institute of Mountain Areas and the Chinese Jujube Research Center, etc.

The research work has reaped a bumper harvest. Of the 449 projects which passed the evaluations since the period of 8th five-year plan, 224 have reached international level; 268 have won awards of ministerial and provincial level or above.

So far various kinds of collaborative research projects and personnel exchange programs have been established in relation to 14 countries. The university is a participant in 1-2-1 Sino-American Personnel Training Program and the enrollment is open to students abroad for PhD study.

AUH has been transformed into a cross-disciplinary university, with a characteristic of agronomy and forestry, covering the 7 fields of agriculture, industry, management, economics, law and literature and arts. Altogether there are 23 colleges in the university.