Shaanxi A&F Technology University is a public undergraduate vocational institution directly under the Shaanxi Provincial Government. Its predecessor is Yangling Vocational and Technical College, which was established in 1999 through the merger of the former national key technical secondary schools Shaanxi Agricultural School, Shaanxi Hydraulic School, and the provincial and ministerial key technical secondary school Shaanxi Forestry School. Located in Yangling, China's first national agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zone, the university's educational history can be traced back to the Higher Vocational Department attached to the National Northwest Agricultural and Forestry College, founded in 1934 by Yu Youren, an elder of the Kuomintang, and General Yang Hucheng, a patriotic general. In June 2025, with the approval of the Ministry of Education and the People's Government of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi A&F Technology University was established on the basis of Yangling Vocational and Technical College. It is the first public undergraduate vocational university in Shaanxi Province and the first comprehensive agricultural and forestry vocational university in China.

Over the past 91 years since its founding, the university has adhered to fostering virtue through education as its fundamental task and taken strengthening agriculture and invigorating rural areas as its mission. It has firmly adhered to the type orientation of vocational education, persisted in the characteristic development of agriculture, forestry, hydraulics, and animal husbandry, and continuously innovated the school-running system and mechanism, educational and teaching concepts, and talent training models. It has accumulated and formed the school-running philosophy of "serving the country's foundation, addressing people's livelihood, and advocating science", the educational philosophy of "integrating morality and skills, and promoting all-round and sustainable development", and the school motto of "Upholding Virtue and Strengthening Competence, Acting with Integrity and Perseverance". The university has cultivated more than 250,000 professional and technical talents of various types, including a number of agricultural experts, national technical experts, and model workers. A large number of graduates have become county (district, bureau) magistrates, earning it the reputation of a "cradle" for cultivating county (district, bureau) magistrates. Its comprehensive strength has remained in the first echelon of higher vocational education in China, and it is one of the first national model higher vocational colleges, a national high-quality junior college vocational college, and a construction unit of high-level vocational schools with Chinese characteristics ("Double High-Level University").

The university currently has four campuses (South Campus, West Campus, North Campus, and Binhe Campus), covering a total area of 3,069 mu (approximately 204.6 hectares). The total building area is 704,400 square meters, with a total fixed asset value of about 1.48 billion yuan. It has a collection of 1.345 million paper books and 960,000 e-books. The university employs 1,215 faculty members, including 15 professors at Level 3 or above, 485 with associate senior titles or above, 97 doctors, 955 teachers with master's degrees or above, and "double-qualified" teachers accounting for 69.18%. It boasts 7 national-level teaching masters, national excellent teachers, and national models of teacher morality, 3 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council and national model workers, 1 National Huang Danian-style Teacher Team, 1 National Vocational Education Teacher Teaching Innovation Team, 2 National Curriculum Ideological and Political Teams, and 12 members and deputy chairpersons of the Professional Teaching Steering Committees of the Ministry of Education. In addition, there are 42 Shaanxi Provincial Teaching Masters, Model Teachers for Moral Education, Models of Teacher Morality, and Advanced Individuals in Teacher Morality, 28 industry teaching masters, 5 Outstanding Young Talents in Shaanxi Provincial Colleges and Universities, 7 Shaanxi Provincial Experts with Outstanding Contributions and Model Workers, 12 position experts in the Shaanxi Modern Agricultural Industry Technology System, and 37 provincial science and technology commissioners.

The university currently has more than 19,000 full-time students. It consists of 16 teaching colleges and departments, including the College of Hydraulic Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, College of Electromechanical Engineering, College of Information Engineering, College of Transportation and Surveying Engineering, College of Bioengineering, College of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering, College of Ecological and Environmental Engineering, College of Animal Engineering, College of Economics and Trade, College of Tourism and Management, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Marxism, School of Continuing Education and Training, International School, and Department of Physical Education. Focusing on national strategies and the modern agricultural industrial chain, the university offers 71 majors covering 16 professional categories such as "agriculture, forestry, hydraulics, architecture, science, engineering, management, and economics". It has 2 national-level high-level professional groups and 7 provincial-level high-level professional groups, making it the only vocational university in China with the most complete range of agriculture, forestry, hydraulics, and animal husbandry majors. In 2025, 6 first batch of undergraduate majors will enroll students, including Hydraulic and Hydropower Engineering, Civil Engineering, Modern Communication Engineering, Protected Horticulture, Landscape Architecture Engineering, and Animal Medicine, with a 4-year academic system.

Based on the type orientation of vocational education, the university adheres to the educational philosophy of "integrating morality and skills, and promoting all-round and sustainable development", and deepens the "four-in-one" talent training and education and teaching reform. It has presided over 9 national and provincial-level professional teaching resource databases, 53 high-quality online open courses, and 18 curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses. It has won 12 national teaching achievement awards and 31 provincial teaching achievement awards, compiled 36 national planned textbooks for the "13th Five-Year Plan" and "14th Five-Year Plan", and obtained 2 first national textbook awards. The university has achieved 4 gold medals, 4 silver medals, and 13 bronze medals in the national competition of the China International College Students' "Internet +" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, as well as 46 gold medals in the provincial competition. It has won more than 1,100 awards in various national and provincial vocational skills competitions. The university has 40 modern productive on-campus experimental and training centers and 128 off-campus training bases, including 5 national-level training bases and 15 provincial-level training bases.

The university adheres to the integration of production and education, and the integration of science and education, and continuously improves the level of school-enterprise cooperation and service to national strategies. Relying on two major platforms, the "Hundred Counties and Thousand Enterprises Alliance Project" and the "China Yangling Modern Agricultural Vocational Education Group", it has established long-term friendly cooperative relations with more than 140 county (district) governments and over 1,800 enterprises inside and outside the province. It has signed agricultural science and technology cooperation agreements with 31 counties (districts), taken the lead in establishing 4 national industry production-education integration communities (China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, China Smart Forestry, Modern Water Conservancy in the Yellow River Basin, and National Civil Engineering Carbon Neutrality) and the provincial-level Yangling Modern Agricultural Urban-Rural Production-Education Consortium, and established 16 enterprise (industry) colleges. The university has set up 7 scientific and technological innovation platforms including the Shaanxi Vocational Education Rural Revitalization Research Institute, Wheat Research Institute, Bee Industry Research Institute, and Northern Strawberry Industry R&D Center ("2 Institutes and 7 Centers"). It has also established 22 "One Teacher, One Product" scientific research innovation teams, 11 "Professor +" studios, 34 "Doctor +" studios, and 39 rural revitalization science and technology service teams. It has co-built 29 off-campus industry-university-research bases with local governments and enterprises, obtained 5 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological platforms such as the National Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation and Integration Demonstration Base, undertaken 3 National Natural Science Foundation projects and more than 200 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research projects, and won 13 national and provincial scientific research awards. The university has bred 40 new varieties such as wheat, prickly ash, chrysanthemum, ornamental peach, fig, strawberry, and edible fungi. The "Wunong" series of high-quality wheat varieties cultivated by the university have been promoted over 90 million mu (approximately 6 million hectares) in the Huang-Huai-Hai River Basin, helping farmers increase their income by 6.5 billion yuan.

The university actively carries out international exchanges and cooperation. As a member unit of the SCO Agricultural Technology Exchange and Training Demonstration Base, it adheres to the two-way exchange principle of "going out" and "bringing in". It undertakes the training tasks of government officials and technical personnel from SCO countries entrusted by the Ministry of Commerce, carries out the Pakistan Agricultural "Thousand Talents Program" training project in China, and enrolls and cultivates more than 130 international students from countries such as Kazakhstan and Russia. It has also built platforms to expand cooperation, including the "Modern Agricultural Technology Training Center" in Kazakhstan, the "Modern Agricultural Technology Innovation and Demonstration Base" in Uzbekistan, and the "China-Kyrgyzstan Modern Agricultural Technology Training Center", jointly cultivating international technical talents in agriculture and hydraulics.

Standing at a new starting point and forging ahead on a new journey, the university will continue to foster virtue through education, adhere to strengthening agriculture and invigorating rural areas, resolutely take on heavy responsibilities, and strive to build a "world-class vocational university with Chinese characteristics". The university will provide strong scientific and technological and talent support for the development of modern agriculture in arid and semi-arid regions, make greater contributions to the high-quality economic and social development of Shaanxi Province, and strive to write a new chapter of progress and achievement for the university.