sher e Bangla Agricultural University

Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU) is located in the heart of the capital city Dhaka covering the area of more than 87 acres. This beautiful, bucolic and serene campus is an ideal place for agricultural education and scientific research.

SAU's history can be traced back to 1938. The term ‘Sher-e-Bangla' comes from its founder the then chief Minister of undivided Bengal Sher-e-Bangla A K Fazlul Huq, who laid down the foundation stone of this historic institution, then known as ‘Bengal Agricultural Institute'. With a history of transformations, SAU has become the 17th public university of the country in 2001. Over nearly a hundred years, SAU has grown into a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive university with agriculture and Agribusiness in the center point. Since inception, the institution has made outstanding contributions to our nation, especially to agricultural production and food security. From 1938 hitherto, our university has a total number of more than 7000 graduates, more than 1000 Master's degree. Graduates can be found everywhere in the country and abroad and contributing tremendously to feed the universe. It is now adopting Animal & veterinary science and Fisheries faculties with distinctive features.

At SAU, undergraduate and graduate programs are developing concurrently, with teaching and research as the two central tasks. There are 2 Bachelor's programs provided for undergraduate. Besides, the university offers Master's programs and Doctoral programs. At present there are more than 390 faculty and staff at SAU, including 30 full professors and 34 associate professors. The campus houses modern teaching spaces, excellent library and other campus facilities including accommodation for approximately 2000 undergraduate and more than 500 graduate students.

Benefited from geological location, SAU has been actively building national academic exchanges and co-operations with other academic and research organizations in the country and abroad. It has established inter-institutional ties with leading research organizations of the country. Every year numbers of foreign scholars come here to make academic exchanges and to give lectures. In addition, our university has been sending teachers and researchers to other countries for short-term training, education and cooperative research