Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University

Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) was established under the name of Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) on the 12th of June 1964 through the APAU Act of 1963. Later, it was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on the 7th of November, 1996 in honor and memory of the noted Parliamentarian and Kisan Leader, Acharya N. G. Ranga.
On the verge of completion of Golden Jubilee Year of the ANGRAU, it has given birth to a new State Agricultural University namely Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University with the bifurcation of the state of Andhra Pradesh as per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2014. The ANGRAU at LAM, Guntur is serving the students and the farmers of 13 districts of new State of Andhra Pradesh with renewed interest and dedication.

Train the manpower in Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering & Technology, and Home Science for the development of the state (Teaching).
Constantly generate and improve technologies for increasing production in Agriculture and for the welfare of rural folk (Research).
Assist in the dissemination of the improved technologies to the farmers of the state through development departments of Government (Extension).

ANGRAU is governed by a 21 members Board of Management with the Vice-Chancellor as Chairman. This apex body is responsible for making these two bodies consist of Deans, Associate Deans, Directors, Associate Directors of Research, Professors, University Professors, and Heads who govern the Academic & Administrative activities of the University with the Vice-Chancellor as Chief Executive. On the academic front, the University has three Faculties viz., Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering & Technology, and Home Science within the purview of the respective Faculty Deans; while the research and extension functions are the responsibilities of the respective Directors.

Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University offers both Under Graduate and Post Graduate programmes in the faculties of Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering & Technology and Home Science.
ANGRAU at present has five Agricultural Colleges under Agriculture Faculty, two Colleges of Agricultural Engineering and two colleges of Food Science and Technology under Agril. Engineering and Technology faculty and one College of Home Science under Home Science faculty. In addition to these, the University is running two Post Graduate Colleges i.e. Advanced Post Graduate Centre at Lam, Guntur and Institute of Agri-Business Management at Tirupati. There are fifteen Agricultural Polytechnics, one Seed Technology Polytechnic and one Organic Farming Polytechnic offering two-year Post-metric diploma programme in Telugu medium and two Agricultural Engineering Polytechnics offering three-year diploma programme in English medium.

Courses Offered

• Bachelor of Technology [B.Tech]
• Bachelor of Science [B.Sc]
• Master of Science [M.Sc]
• Master of Technology [M.Tech]
• Ph.D