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] .
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.
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 |