As of December 2019, CAU offers 66 undergraduate majors and over 32 masters and 21 doctoral programs.

[1] Its gymnasium hosted the wrestling events during the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Since then, the university has become the top academic institution in China in terms of agricultural studies.

[citation needed] Rugby re-emerged in the PRC in 1990, with a club formed at Beijing Agricultural University.

A professor there, Chao Xihuang, was introduced to the sport by a Japanese businessman, and set up a couple of sides.