Shenyang Agricultural University (SYAU), jointly administered by national and local governments, is a national key university in China. The Chairman of SYAU University Council is Prof. Liu Guanglin. The President of SYAU is Prof. Chen Qijun. 

With Tianzhu Mountain standing on its north side, the world cultural heritage---Fuling Tomb of Qing Dynastry to its east and Hunhe River to its south, SYAU is situated in the heart of the integrated region linking the two cities of Shenyang and Fushun. Occupying a total area of 10246mu (mu is a unit of area used in China and 1mu is equivalent to around 0.067 hectare) and surrounded with a tranquil neighborhood, a beautiful scenery and a pleasant ecological and cultural environment, SYAU makes an ideal place for teaching, learning and research.

Guided by the CPC education development strategies, generations of SYAU faculties and students have been making unremitted joint efforts to promote the undertaking of education with the spirit of  exploration and innovation.  SYAU is a major participant in the national project for 'Building and Strengthening Basic Capacity for Universities in Central and Western Regions of China', one of China’s first batch of  pilot universities to set up a research institute for new rural areas development and one of China’s first group of universities to pilot the reform on talent cultivation in fields of agriculture and forestry with the sponsorship of the Ministry of Education, PRC, the Ministry of Agriculture, PRC and the State Forestry Bureau, PRC. With an equal importance put to teaching and research, SYAU has made itself a research and application-oriented university integrating the academic focus on multiple disciplines of agriculture, science, engineering, economics, management and law with agricultural and life sciences as its characteristic specialties.  

SYAU has 16 colleges and 4 teaching faculties. With a sound and complete system for agricultural education and research, SYAU currently has 8 post-doc research programs, 72 doctoral programs, 114 master's programs, and 58 undergraduate programs, incorporating 3 national key disciplines, 3 MOA key disciplines, 7 provincially higher education first-class characteristic disciplines, 27 provincially key disciplines. 

To ensure a better environment that enables quality education and research at SYAU, an all-around upgrade of teaching and research infrastructure was initiated in 2012 and worked out rapidly with 17 new functional buildings bulit covering an area of 200,000 square meters and well-equipped world-class teaching and research bases put into use. The construction of new outside-campus teaching and research demonstration centers has been completed with an area of 43 hectares in Haicheng, Liaozhong and Zhangwu, having enormously enlarged the development space for SYAU and providing further support and guarantee for developing high-level teaching and research activities.

'United, Diligent, Truth-seeking, and Innovative”, SYAU faculties, staff and students have always been working hard to honor the inspiring motto. In the new era, SYAU is sparing no efforts to break a new ground for improving its inner capacity, prioritizing talent cultivation, subjects building, research and extension as a leading agricultural university.