Central South University of Forestry and Technology

Central South University of Forestry and Technology was founded in 1958 and is located in Changsha, a famous historical and cultural city. It is a university co-built by the People's Government of Hunan Province and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, a university under the National Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in Central and Western China, and a university under the "Domestic First-Class University" construction program of Hunan Province. The university has 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 6 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, 20 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, 16 categories authorized to confer professional master's degrees, and 5 postdoctoral research mobile stations. It has 2 national characteristic key disciplines, 3 national key (cultivated) disciplines, 5 key (cultivated) disciplines of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, 6 domestic first-class construction (cultivation) disciplines of Hunan Province, and 1 self-established interdisciplinary discipline. Three disciplines—Agricultural Sciences, Engineering, and Ecology and Environmental Sciences—have entered the top 1% of the ESI global ranking.