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Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University

Organization's Acronym:
RPCAU
Web Address:
https://www.rpcau.ac.in/
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Focus Region:
Asia and the Pacific
Focus Country:
India

Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, formerly Rajendra Agricultural University, is an Indian agriculture university located in Pusa, Samastipur district, state of Bihar. It was originally established as India’s first-ever Imperial Agriculture Research Institute.

There are five faculties in the university in the disciplines of Agriculture, Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Agricultural Engineering, Basic Sciences, Humanities & Home Science, besides the college of agriculture, fisheries and institute of dairy technology. The university offers six undergraduate degree programmes, thirty-three postgraduate programmes and eighteen PhD programmes. It is also the only university to provide an MBA in Agribusiness programme.