Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University is a

public university A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national universit ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. It was established in 1974 as a non-profit educational unit for the purpose of creating

agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ...

education courses. The university was originally called the Higher Agricultural Engineering School and offered general agricultural,

forestry Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. Th ...

rangeland Rangelands are grasslands, shrublands, woodlands, wetlands, and deserts that are grazed by domestic livestock or wild animals. Types of rangelands include tallgrass and shortgrass prairies, desert grasslands and shrublands, woodlands, savannas ...

and

animal husbandry Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock. Husbandry has a long history, starti ...

courses. In 1979, the Higher Agricultural Engineering School, along with several other centers, provided the foundation for the establishment of the

University of Mazandaran The University of Mazandaran is a state university located in Mazandaran province of Iran, headquartered in the city of Babolsar. The University of Mazandaran, currently the largest state higher education center in the north of Iran, and had fo ...

in the city center of

Babolsar Babolsar ( fa, بابلسر, also Romanized as Bābolsar and Bābul Sar; also known as Mashhadsar (Persian: مَشهَدسَر), also Romanized as Mashhad-i-Sar and Meshed-i-Sar) is a city and capital of Babolsar County, Mazandaran Province, Ira ...

. In 1997, after upgrading the facilities and capabilities, two colleges of

agricultural sciences Agricultural science (or agriscience for short) is a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. Profession ...

and natural resources were granted a single

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, and they officially began their training activities in the academic year of 1997-1998. According to the ranking of Iranian Universities, this public university is among the top three of agricultural and natural resources universities in the country.

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External links

Official Website
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