The university comprises a Graduate School, 22 colleges, one teaching department, and the Hainan International College. It offers 71 undergraduate programs, including 26 national first-class undergraduate program development sites. It has 9 first-level doctoral degree programs and 2 professional doctoral degree programs, 18 first-level master’s degree programs, and 19 categories of professional master’s degree programs. In addition, it operates 10 postdoctoral research stations and one postdoctoral research workstation.

The university boasts two disciplines selected for world-class development—forestry engineering and forestry—as well as four designated for national first-class development: biology, ecology, landscape architecture, and agricultural and forestry economic management. It has 3 national key first-level disciplines, 11 national key second-level disciplines, 8 key disciplines designated by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, 2 key (cultivated) disciplines under the same administration, 1 key discipline cluster in Heilongjiang Province, and 7 provincial key first-level disciplines.

Seven disciplines—plant and animal science, agricultural science, environment and ecology, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and biology and biochemistry—rank among the top 1% globally in the Essential Science Indicators (ESI). The university has gradually developed a distinctive disciplinary system that integrates forestry engineering with other fields, is supported by the fundamental sciences, enriched by the humanities, and coordinated with agriculture and forestry.

It hosts a National Life Science and Technology Talent Training Base, jointly approved by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Education, and a National Base for Fundamental Scientific Research and Teaching Talent Training in Biology, approved by the Ministry of Education. The university is also a pilot institution for national education system reform, a pilot university for the national programs to educate outstanding engineers and outstanding agricultural and forestry talents, a demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education, and a national base for innovation and entrepreneurship in practical education.