Currently eighteen colleges (department) of the university offer 64 undergraduate programs covering eleven academic disciplines in agriculture, science, engineering, economics, management, literature, law, philosophy, medicine, history and education to over 20,000 undergraduates. The university established a national training base for life science and technology, and an experimental base for innovative talent cultivation and has formed talent training modes of undergraduate-master and master-doctor by practicing cultivation mode of “2+X” with elastic credit system. To ensure individualized education for the students, innovation funds have been set up, and to instruct students in their study and career design, a tutor system has come into practice. Meanwhile a complete subsidy system has been established to reward the excellent and subsidize the needy. The system includes over 20 types of scholarships and bursaries with annual investment over 30,000,000 yuan. The graduates get employed across China. Every year around 30% of the graduates pass the graduate entrance exams and continue their study. In recent years the employment rate has been over 93%, ranking top among the universities directly under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Ministry of Education. Northwest A&F University is actively working to expand international cooperation and exchange in education, science and technology. The university currently has established cooperative relations with over 60 universities and research institutes from 30 countries or regions such as the U.S., U.K., Japan, and Australia, and signed agreements to exchange students and study abroad. The university also has obtained support from some international foundations on study abroad, and is entitled to receive international students supported by the Chinese Government Scholarship.
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