As of March 2022, the school covers an area of1158.15 mu, of which the main campus of Xinzhuang covers an area of 1257 mu, the Jurong Xia Shu Practice Forest Farm covers an area of 4,876 mu, and the Huai 'an campus covers an area of 1327 mu. There are 2 1 college (department), 70 undergraduate majors, 8 postdoctoral mobile stations and 8 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees.
The school was formerly the Forestry Department of Central University (founded in 1902) and the Forestry Department of Jinling University (founded in 19 10), and Nanjing Forestry College was merged in 1952, which was one of the only three forestry colleges in China at that time. 1955 Huazhong agricultural college (formed by the merger of Wuhan university, Nanchang university and Hubei agricultural college) was merged with the forestry department, and 1972 was renamed Nanjing forestry industry institute. 1983 restored the name of Nanjing Forestry College, and 1985 changed its name to Nanjing Forestry University.
Academic resources:
In June 2022, official website information of the school library showed that there were more than 2.38 million paper documents, more than 50 Chinese and foreign paper periodicals 1 100, more than 4.3 million e-books and more than 50,000 e-periodicals. The library actively participates in the cooperation and exchange of CALIS, JALIS and library resources construction and service of agriculture and forestry system.
The library provides document information services such as resource discovery, collection inquiry, book borrowing, new book exhibition, special book exhibition, document delivery and information literacy education, and the digital library provides all-weather service. Carry out in-depth knowledge service, provide scientific and technological novelty retrieval, subject service, information analysis, digital scholarship, etc. It plays a strong supporting role in the discipline construction, teaching and scientific research and management decision-making of the school. Provide a variety of space services and have a maker experience space.