A  BRIEF  INTRODUCTION

    The College of Resources and Environmental Sciences (CRES), Gansu Agricultural University (GAU) was founded on December 23 th , 2003. Its antecedent is a major of soil and agro-chemistry in Agronomy Department, which was established in 1959 and then became an individual department in 1980. The college has been developed and enlarged as a comprehensive and mutiple-subject one including agricultural science , management and engineering by the combination of education and scientific research, full-time education as well as adult education with the Bachelor, Master and Ph. D. Degree Conferral Right.

    There are 44 faculties in the college, including five professors, seven associate professors and 15 lecturers, as well as one senior and one junior laboratory technicians, six of whom with Ph. D. Degree and 15 Master Degree

   The college has three departments, two laboratories and six research institutes.

   •  Department
   •  Ecology & Environmental Sciences Department
   •  Land Science Department
   •  Geographical Information and Urban & Rural Planning Department

   •  Laboratory
   •  Resources & Environmental Sciences
   •  Information Technology & Planning

   •  Research Institute
   •  Organic Food Development Center (OFDC) Gansu Subcenter of the Ministry of Environmental Protection
   •  Training Center for Map GIS, GIS Software and Application Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education
   •  Environmental Monitoring & Assessing Center
   •  Land Resource Management Institute
   •  Urban and Rural Planning Institute
   •  Soil & Fertilizer Institute

   Now, the college has one Ph. D program, one first-level discipline for master's degree granting, four master degree programs ， one professional master degree program, five disciplines for undergraduate students and one self-taught higher education examination course.

   •  Ph. D program
   •  Ecology ( provincial key discipline)

   •  First-level discipline for Master's Degree Granting
   •  Utilization Science of Agricultural Resources

   •  Master degree programs
   •  Ecology
   •  Plant Nutrition
   •  Soil Science
   •  Land Resource Management

   •  Professional master degree program
   •  A gricultural Extension

   •  Disciplines for undergraduate students
   •  Agricultural Resources & Environment
   •  Land Resource Management
   •  Urban and Rural Planning & Resources Management
   •  Geographical Information System (GIS)
   •  Environmental Engineering.

   •  Self-taught higher education examination course
   •  Land Resource Management
    
    The enrollment of full time undergraduates is 1129, graduates is 107 and. Ph. D. students is 22.

    Since the national 10 th Five-year Plan, the faculty members have been very active in taking part in different research projects funded by the “Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (863 program)”, National Natural Science Foundation of China, CAE (Chinese Academy of Engineering) , ACIAR(Australia Center for International Agricultural Research) etc. The main research achievements include four Sci-Tech progress awards and 300 scientific papers.