Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences

Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS), is an autonomous Christian minority institution under the 'Sam Higginbottom Educational and Charitable Society, Allahabad. It falls under the category of an aided state agriculture university in  Uttar Pradesh. This institute was founded with a noble mission in 1910 by Dr. Sam Higginbottom. The prime motive was to help and improve the economic conditions of rural India. This institute got the distinction to become the first institute to be offering an engineering degree in Agriculture.

The institute was conferred Deemed University status on 15 March 2000 and was certified as a Christian Minority Educational Institution in December 2005. Earlier the MHRD placed SHUATS among the elite category 'A' deemed universities on the basis of the expert committee recommendation. The university is an alma mater to many notable scientists, geneticists and agricultural engineers and regarded as the progenitor of the Green Revolution in India. SHUATS is a multi-faculty residential academic institution. The university offers 51 undergraduate programmes, 123 postgraduate programmes, 20 diploma/certificate programmes and doctoral programmes with over 10,000 students enrolled on campus.

In the prestigious and widely acclaimed educational ranking of Indian Institutional Ranking Framework (IIRF-2020), SHUATS at 54 Rank in IIRF Deemed University Ranking 2020. The university promotes research activities on the campus, by putting emphasis on interdisciplinary collaborative research and interaction between students and faculty. The major research areas include agronomy, mechanised agriculture, food processing, silviculture, genetic engineering, pharmacology, plant pathology, applied microbiology and computational biology. The research activities are funded through extramural research grants from government agencies such as ICAR, DBT, NRSC, DST, MHRD, MRD, UPCAR, EU and USDA.