List_of_agricultural_universities_in_India
This article lists agricultural universities (AUs) in India, by state or territory. Although a number of Indian universities offer agricultural education, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the main regulator of agricultural education, recognizes three "Central Agricultural Universities",[1] four Deemed Universities[2] and 63 "State Agricultural Universities",[3] as of January 2021[update].[note 1]
The state with the most agricultural universities in India is Uttar Pradesh with seven universities (one deemed, one central and five state universities). There are no agricultural universities in Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim or Tripura, nor on any of the union territories, except Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir.
| State | Agricultural universities |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 3 |
| Assam | 1 |
| Bihar | 3 |
| Chhattisgarh | 2 |
| Delhi | 1 |
| Gujarat | 5 |
| Haryana | 4 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 2 |
| Jharkhand | 1 |
| Karnataka | 6 |
| Kerala | 3 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3 |
| Maharashtra | 6 |
| Manipur | 1 |
| Odisha | 1 |
| Punjab | 2 |
| Rajasthan | 6 |
| Tamil Nadu | 3 |
| Telangana | 3 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 7 |
| Uttarakhand | 2 |
| West Bengal | 3 |
| Total | 70 |
- Chhattisgarh Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya, Durg
- Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur
- Mahatma Gandhi University of Horticulture and Forestry, Durg
- Anand AU, Anand
- Junagadh AU, Junagadh
- Kamdhenu University, Gandhinagar
- Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari
- SDAU, Banaskantha
- Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda
- Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur
- Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly[note 4]
- Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Faizabad
- Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi[note 2]
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut
- Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology and Sciences
- The Indian Agricultural Universities Association (IAUA) also provides a list of member universities.[4] However, this list includes institutes which offer agricultural education which are not agricultural universities per se such as Banaras Hindu University.
- Listed as "Haryana State University of Horticultural Sciences, Karnal".
- "Central Agricultural Universities | भारतीय कृषि अनुसंधान परिषद". www.icar.org.in. Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- "Deemed Universities | भारतीय कृषि अनुसंधान परिषद". www.icar.org.in. Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- "State Agricultural Universities | भारतीय कृषि अनुसंधान परिषद". www.icar.org.in. Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- "List of Member Universities of IAUA". Indian Agricultural Universities Association. Retrieved 19 July 2017.