Saratov State Agrarian University

Saratov State Agrarian University is one of the largest leading educational institutions training specialists for the agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation. University is rated in the top 100 universities in Russia and occupies the first five places among agricultural universities. University is a teaching and research facility, a cultural and social center of the developing modern infrastructure.

Campus: Agriculture and Economics, Agricultural Engineering, Veterinary and Food industry.

Colleges: Veterinary College, Irrigation and drainage college, Agricultural college.

University publishes its own academic journal: "The Agrarian Scientific Journal" (Web of Science RSCI database).

University has 33 research laboratories, research and production centers, including a business incubator, a technology park, an engineering center, collective use centers for scientific equipment, certification centers, experienced and Experimental innovative sites.

Students & staff: 15.000 students, 400 professors, 600 lecturers, over 1300 staff.

Actual Cooperation Project Examples: ENAGRA – ICA: 53 universities, AGRIMBA, ERABEE, Erasmus+: Credit mobility, Staff Mobility for Training Mobility Agreements.

Research Profile: 

1) Crop Breeding and Genetics, Land Use.

2) Agricultural Economics and Management.

3) Agricultural machinery and equipment, repair and restoration of agricultural units.

4) Livestock and breeding, Veterinary science.

5) Food technology, Organic Agricultural Products.

The University has a multipurpose sports complex with an indoor swimming pool; there are more than 30 different sections in the sports club.

The University has three sports camps, located on the picturesque banks of the Volga, and health centers.

Student club has singing and dance groups,а theater studio,а folk instruments orchestra,а chorus.

University library is one of the largest agricultural libraries in the region. Research library fund comprises more than 1.8 million copies. Scientific literature fund consists of more than 650 thousand copies, including a unique collection of publications.

Agricultural University is proud of its museums: zoological, anatomopathological, parasitological, biological, and the museum of veterinary sanitary inspection.

The museum of the University history and memorial room of N.I. Vavilov occupy a special place in the cultural and scientific space of the higher educational establishment.

University graduates receive a broad education.

They possess the necessary level of theoretical and practical knowledge to work successfully in the agro-industrial enterprises in such areas as:
- agroecology and agroengineering;
- animal husbandry, fish farming , poultry farming;
- viticulture and bee-keeping;
- forestry, gardening and landscape construction;
- entrepreneurship, banking and agribusiness;
- food and processing industry;
- service, trade and veterinary medicine;
- universities, colleges and research institutes;
- administrative and management organizations of agro industrial complex in the Volga region and Russia.
More than 100 thousand qualified professionals were trained at the University during the years of its work.
Every year scientific and pedagogical staff of agricultural universities, colleges, technical schools, agricultural leaders, district departments of agriculture area, etc. are trained and retrained on the basis of the institute of additional professional education of agro industrial complex personnel.