The school mainly focuses on forestry, and features the subject of biological environment. Agriculture, science, engineering, literature, law and management are integrated and developed, mainly implementing undergraduate and postgraduate education, and supporting the implementation of adult education, higher vocational and technical education and education for international students. Based on Yunnan, serving the southwest, facing the whole country and radiating to Southeast Asia, we will strive to serve the economic and social development, regional ecological environment construction and regional forestry industry development in the southwest frontier ethnic areas, and cast the cradle of green talents on the red soil plateau with sweat and hard work.
The school has two colleges, namely Forestry College, Life Science College, Landscape Architecture College, Mechanical and Transportation College, Material Engineering College, Ecotourism College, Economic Management College, Environmental Science and Engineering College, Civil Engineering College, Art College, Computer and Information College, Humanities College, Science College, Foreign Languages College, International College, Continuing Education College, Vocational and Technical College, Ideological and Political Theory Teaching Department and Sports Department.
At present, the school has more than 1.4 million full-time students, including 900 master students and 1.3 million undergraduates.
The total number of school staff is 1027. Among them, there are 755 full-time teachers, with doctoral degree 189, accounting for 25.03%, and 595 with master's degree or above, accounting for 78.81%; Professor 1 18, associate professor 309; National first-class expert of 100 million talents engineering 1 person, outstanding talents of the Ministry of Education in the new century 1 person, 2 trans-century academic and technical leaders of the State Forestry Administration, 4 outstanding contribution experts of the State Forestry Administration, 2 outstanding contribution experts of Yunnan Province, 2 experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, 6 experts enjoying special allowances from the State Forestry Administration and the Yunnan Provincial Government, and young academic and technical leaders of Yunnan Province 16 people, Yunnan Province.
The school is one of the first master's degree awarding units in China after the reform and opening up. In 2009, it was approved as a new batch of national engineering construction doctoral degree awarding units. At present, there are 14 master's degree authorization points in the first-level disciplines, 4 1 master's degree authorization points in two disciplines and1professional master's degree authorization points. There are 9 provincial and ministerial key disciplines and key construction disciplines, 60 undergraduate majors, national first-class professional construction sites 1 each, 3 provincial majors, 8 key construction majors in Yunnan Province, national excellent courses 1 each, Yunnan excellent courses 13, and Yunnan bilingual normal courses 1 each.
In recent years, the school has won 9 teaching achievement awards at or above the provincial level. Among them, "Theory and Practice of Innovative Talents Training in Southwest Forestry University" and "Construction and Demonstration of Forestry Major in Provincial Key Construction Major" won the first prize; In 2004, it successfully passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education with a good conclusion.
According to the training base construction plan, the school optimizes the layout, integrates resources, forms a joint force, closely combines the training base construction with the ecological environment construction and economic and social development, effectively mobilizes the enthusiasm and initiative of all parties, and strives to build a training base that meets the needs of practical teaching. At present, there are 35 off-campus practice training bases, which meet the needs of practical teaching and scientific research in various disciplines.
The school herbarium was registered as one of the top ten herbarium in China world by the Royal Botanical Garden, and was selected as a popular science education base by the State Forestry Administration and Yunnan Province. With more than 600,000 specimens of plants, wood, forest pathology and forest distress, it plays an increasingly important role in practical teaching, scientific research, popular science education and foreign cooperation and exchanges.
The school has established 1 National Research Center, 1 Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education, 1 Key Laboratory of State Forestry Administration, 1 Key Laboratory of Yunnan Province, 3 Key Laboratories of Yunnan Universities, 2 Engineering (Technology) Research Centers of Yunnan Universities, 4 Experimental Demonstration Centers of Yunnan Universities, and 1 Demonstration Laboratories of Yunnan Universities. Yunnan bamboo and rattan science and technology innovation team 1 each, Yunnan innovative talent training base 1 each, and Yunnan talent training mode innovation experimental area 1 each.
The school is at the forefront of similar research in biodiversity and nature reserve management, forest cultivation, forest protection, bamboo research, wood science and technology, forest management, plateau wetland and so on; It has obvious regional characteristics in landscape planning and design, eco-tourism and other fields; Outstanding achievements have been made in the research of birds, fish and ants.
In the past five years, the school's research funding was 65.438+0.6 billion yuan; Undertake 477 scientific research projects, including 47 national projects and 90 provincial and ministerial projects; Won 20 provincial and ministerial science and technology achievement awards; Published 2423 academic papers, 64 academic monographs (edited) and 28 intellectual property achievements.
The school covers an area of 1204 1 mu, with a building area of 409,600 square meters. Total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment 1. 1 100 million yuan; China full-text database of academic journals, Superstar Digital Library and other Chinese and foreign databases, with 6,543,800 books and 230,000 e-books.
The school has established inter-school relations with universities in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam and other countries. Jointly train graduate students with universities and research institutions in France, Germany and other countries; All undergraduate majors and master's programs in our school recruit foreign students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. On the basis of mutual recognition of credits, we have carried out the "2+2" mode joint education project for undergraduates, as well as various short-term teaching practice and graduation thesis practice projects for undergraduates and postgraduates with the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Thailand, Poland and other countries. It has established scientific and technological cooperation and exchange relations with international organizations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature, the Global Environment Fund, the American Nature Conservancy, the MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation.