Abstract: Climate change education in universities has been one of key issues for enhancing nation's capacity of adapting and mitigating climate change. A questionnaire survey was conducted at Nanjing Agricultural University among total 140 student participants who were randomly sampled from different specialties and grades. Digital scores were used for the answers and assessed for the positiveness towards the questions for basic knowledge of climate change, relation between agriculture and climate change, and altitude in response to climate change. The results show a generally fair awareness of climate change although the positiveness on the questions varied with the question issues, and with the grades and specialties of the student participants. However, the participants obtained relatively lower scores for the warming causes and generation of greenhouse gases. The students in high grades and in specialty of agricultural sciences had significantly stronger awareness of climate change and agriculture than those in lower grades (1-3 grades generally) and in cultural and economical sciences, respectively. Much high variability was observed in student's altitude towards climate change mitigation and adaptation, while not much difference among participants of different grades. Education of climate change affairs is urgent to meet the demand of human resources for struggling with future climate change. The authors suggest that a public selective curriculum on climate change and relevant mitigation options should be offered, and climate change management curriculum can be opened in the university in conditions.

Key words: climate change, university education, agricultural institutes, questionnaire survey, public awareness