South China Agricultural University
Guangzhou · Agriculture & Forestry
Top tier — Priority coverage — programs, tuition and English-taught options actively maintained; a full international admission profile is shown where available.
Guangzhou
Major city Metro Est. budget CNY 3,000–5,500 (USD 420–760) / month incl. dorm or shared flatThe historical gateway of China–Africa and China–Southeast Asia trade, Guangzhou mixes two thousand years of Cantonese merchant culture with a modern megacity of trade fairs and factories. Sun Yat-sen University, South China University of Technology and Jinan University — the university built for overseas students — anchor a huge international student body. The Xiaobei district's African, Arab and South Asian trading community makes it, for many students from those regions, the most familiar city in China.
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Academic strengths
China’s official discipline evaluation (MOE Degree Centre, 4th round, 2017): A+ ≈ top 2%, A ≈ top 2–5%. Methodology
| Double First-Class discipline | Evaluation |
|---|---|
| Crop Science | B |
All evaluated disciplines (16)
- Veterinary A-
- Agricultural Engineering B+
- Food Science B+
- Animal Husbandry B+
- Agribusiness B+
- Crop Science B
- Horticulture B
- Agricultural Resources & Environment B
- Plant Protection B
- Landscape B-
- Grassland B-
- Forestry C+
- Computer Science C
- Public Administration C
- Chemical Engineering C-
- Environmental Engineering C-
What its badges mean
China’s elite university initiative (147 universities designated in the 2022 MOE list)
Data sources: university international-admission pages (linked above), MOE Double First-Class list (2022), MOE Degree Centre discipline evaluation (2017). Figures marked as typical ranges are editorial estimates, dated — per-source verification in progress — full data notes.