Grodno State Agrarian University – GSAU | |
Native Name: | Гродненский государственный аграрный университет (ГГАУ) |
Established: | January 17, 1951 |
Type: | Public |
Administrative Staff: | 763 (2015) |
Rector: | Peshko Valentin[1] |
Students: | 5,150 (2017) |
City: | Grodno |
Country: | Belarus |
Campus: | Urban |
Affiliations: | COST, Erasmus Programme, JEAN MONET, FAIR, TEMPUS |
Address: | Tereshkova Str. 28, 230023, Grodno |
The Grodno State Agrarian University (Russian: Гродненский государственный аграрный университет, GSAU) is one of four agricultural universities in Belarus, established in 1951 in Grodno. It employs over 760 staff including over 320 academic educators. The GSAU offers some 13 different fields of study, 7 faculties in Agricultural Sciences, Economic Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Food Production.
On 17 January 1951, the university was founded consisted of Faculty of Agronomy and Faculty of Animal Science (Zootechnical) and one of them was accommodated in Stanislavovo a former summer residence of the last Polish king. In 1962 the Faculty of Plant Protection was founded. During the 90th the rapid growth of the university began because it was still the only one agricultural education establishment for Western part of Belarus.
The campus (more than 15 ha) is located mostly in the northern center of Grodno, very close to the district of Dzieviatovka.
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