Sher e Bangla Agricultural University

 Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU) is a leading agricultural university in bangladesh. It is located in the heart of the capital city, Dhaka with an excellent public transportation facilities to reach SAU campus. The SAU campus stands on 86.01 acres (34.82 hectares) of picturesque land covered by green plantations.

Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University has started its formal function on the eleventh day of September 2001 following issuance of a notification by the Government as per requirement of the " Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Act 2001" which was passed in the National Parliament on 09 July 2001. In fact, the SAU has come into being through the upgradation of Bangladesh Agricultural Institute (BAI).
The BAI was established on December 11, 1938 by Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq, the then Chief Minister of undivided Bengal.
At that time the name of this institution was "The Bengal Agricultural Institute". Later it became "East Pakistan Agricultural Institute" and on the emergence of Bangladesh as independent country in 1971, the name of the institute was spontaneously changed to Bangladesh Agricultural institute (BAI). Since its inception, the BAI had been functioning as a " Faculty of Agriculture" under Dhaka University. Meanwhile with the establishment of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh in 1961 its academic function was transferred to BAU in 1964 till its upgradation to Sher-e- Bangla Agricultural University in 2001.