China Agricultural University has formed a comprehensive university with distinctive features and a dominant position in agricultural sciences. The strong groups of disciplines at CAU are agriculture and life science, resources and environmental sciences, information and computer science, agricultural engineering and automation science, as well as economics, management and social sciences. The disciplines at 18 colleges cover a wide range of fields, including agriculture, livestock, engineering, biology and biotechnology, resource and environment, science, economics, management, law, literature, medicine and philosophy. In addition, the Graduate School and the College of Continuing Education were also established.