Northeast Forestry University is entitled to enjoy support from the country’s initiatives, including “Project 211”,the Innovation Platform for Prioritized Academic Disciplines in June, 2011,and was selected as the First-class Discipline Construction University in September, 2017.

NEFU has two education, research and practice bases,the Mao'ershan Expermental Forest Farm (also known as Mao’ershan National Forest Park) and the Liangshui Experimental Forest Farm (Liangshui National Natural Reserve). NEFU is a multidisciplinary university with Forestry as its dominant discipline and Forestry Engineering as the characteristic,together with an extensive coverage of disciplines in Agriculture, Science, Engineering, Economy, Management, Liberal arts，Law，Medicine and Art.

NEFU has also educated a number of excellent international students from over sixty countries of five continents, as one of the admission universities for international students sponsored by the Chinese Government Scholarship.