北京林业大学坐落于名校云集的海淀区,是教育部直属的中国林业和生态环境教育的最高学府。北京林业大学前身可追溯到1902年设立的清代京师大学堂林科。学校成立于1952年,经过半个多世纪的风雨耕耘与探索,这座绿色学府已经从单科性的林业院校发展成为以林学、生物学、林业工程学为特色,农、理、工、管、经、文、法、哲相结合的多科性全国重点大学,形成了以本科、硕士、博士培养为主,继续教育、留学生培养为辅的完整的人才培养体系。
学校学科门类齐全,现有12个本科教学学院,50个本科专业和专业方向,硕士学位授权点73个,博士学位授权点35个。师资力量雄厚,拥有中国工程院院士5人,博士生导师127人,正、副教授495人。学校的园林、生物、林学、水土保持等优势专业在中国居于领先地位。
据2006年统计,北京林业大学有本科生12900人,研究生近4000人。学校招收从语言生到博士生后的各个层次留学生,涵盖本校所有的学科专业。截至2006年,共有来自韩国、日本、美国、英国、泰国、印尼、奥地利、意大利、芬兰、法国、土耳其、越南、蒙古等国家的1200多名留学生在校学习。
Located in Haidian District which is home to many key universities in China, Beijing Forestry University (BFU) is a top institution of higher education in forestry and ecological environment under the direct leadership of the Ministry of Education. Thanks to the unremitting efforts of generations of people, Beijing Forestry University which is founded in 1952 has developed itself form a forestry college into a multi-disciplinary national key university with forestry, biology and forestry engineering as its leading disciplines, together 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. So far there are 50 undergraduate subjects offered by 12 schools, 73 graduate disciplines and 35 doctoral disciplines. The BFU has 495 full and associate professors, of whom 127 are supervisors of Ph.D. programs and five are academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). Its advantage specialties such as landscape architecture, biological science, forestry silviculture, soil and water conservation are in the leading position in China. By 2006, it has had an enrollment of 12,900 undergraduate students and 2,700 postgraduate students.
Equipped with good facilities serving for instruction and research, the BFU can provide a desirable environment for students.
It admits international enrollments from language students to post doctors covering all of its specialties. By 2006 there have been about 1,200 international students studying in this university from such countries as Korea, Japan, the United States, Britain, Thailand, Indonesia, Austria, Italy, Finland, France, Turkey, Vietnam, Mongolia, etc.