Hunan Agricultural University, or HUNAU (simplified Chinese: 湖南农业大学; traditional Chinese: 湖南農業大學; pinyin: Húnán Nóngyè Dàxué), is a key provincial university of Hunan located in the Furong District of Changsha, with a campus of 2.27 square kilometers. HUNAU was established in 1951 by combining two colleges: the Agricultural College of Hunan University and the Hunan Provincial Xiuye Agricultural and Forestry College, and was called Hunan Agricultural College. It was renamed Hunan Agricultural University on 1994. After more than half century's development, HUNAU has evolved from an agriculture-oriented teaching organization into an integrated university. In 1978, HUNAU started to grant degrees of master. In 1987, it began to grant degrees for doctors. And in 1995, the post-doctoral scientific study and research station was established. In 2007, more than 50,000 students from 31 provinces study here, including 24,000 undergraduates, 26,000 adult-education students, 3000 masters and doctors.