About Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology in 8.4 km North-west of Kanpur Central railway/Bus Station, Kanpur

Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology is an agricultural university at Kanpur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is named after the Indian revolutionary Chandrashekhar Azad. The university caters to the needs of the farming community of 29 districts of Uttar Pradesh.HistoryA small school was started in 1893 at Kanpur to provide training to revenue officers. It gradually grew to the status of a Government Agricultural College (1906), the U.P. Institute of Agricultural Sciences (1969) and a full-fledged university in 1975. U.P. College of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry, Mathura was merged with the university at that time.CollegesThe university comprises seven colleges, namely the colleges of Agriculture, Home Science, Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Forestry, Horticulture, Dairy Technology and Fisheries.Admission policyStudents are admitted to the under graduate programme through SEE-UPTECH conducted by UPTECH, Lucknow, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh. Seats are allotted according to the merit of the students in SEE-UPTECH and their choice at the time of counselling 2008-09 onward students are taken through UPCATET

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