Bangladesh Agricultural University

Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU, Bengali: বাংলাদেশ কৃষি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a public agricultural university in Mymensingh, central Bangladesh, established on 18 August 1961 as East Pakistan Agricultural University.孟加拉国农业大学（Bangladesh Agricultural University，简称 BAU，孟加拉语：বাংলাদেশ কৃষি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়）是孟加拉国中部迈门辛的一所公立农业大学，1961 年 8 月 18 日以东巴基斯坦农业大学之名创立。

It is the country's oldest agricultural university, teaching nine undergraduate, 51 graduate and 45 doctoral programmes through 45 departments organised into six faculties, and it sits on a campus of about 1,260 acres beside the Old Brahmaputra River.该校是孟加拉国历史最久的农业大学，45 个系分属 6 个学院，开设 9 个本科专业、51 个研究生专业与 45 个博士专业，校园位于旧布拉马普特拉河西岸，占地约 1260 英亩。

BAU is placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the 1001-1200 band of the Times Higher Education ranking for 2027 and 1,290th in the U.S. News global ranking for 2026-27, and it does not appear in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1401+ 并列区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 1001 至 1200 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中位列第 1290 位，且未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名。

History

• The Pakistani government set up a Commission on National Education at the end of 1958, and its 1959 report recommended creating an agricultural university in East Pakistan to supply trained staff for a predominantly agrarian economy.巴基斯坦政府于 1958 年底设立全国教育委员会，其 1959 年报告建议在东巴基斯坦创办一所农业大学，为以农业为主的经济培养技术人员。
• Mymensingh already had the East Pakistan College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, and the government chose to upgrade that college rather than build a new institution from scratch.迈门辛当时已设有东巴基斯坦兽医学与畜牧学院，政府决定把这所学院升格，而不是另起炉灶新建机构。
• On 18 August 1961 the East Pakistan Agricultural University Ordinance, 1961, converted the college into East Pakistan Agricultural University, the province's first agricultural university.1961 年 8 月 18 日，《1961 年东巴基斯坦农业大学条例》将该学院改为东巴基斯坦农业大学，成为该省第一所农业大学。
• Soil scientist M Osman Ghani was appointed the university's first vice-chancellor on 2 September 1961, less than three weeks after the ordinance was promulgated.土壤学家 M·奥斯曼·加尼于 1961 年 9 月 2 日被任命为首任副校长，距条例颁布不足三周。
• The university opened with 30 teachers and 444 students in 23 departments under two faculties, Agriculture and Veterinary Science.建校时学校仅有 30 名教师与 444 名学生，设农学与兽医学两个学院，共 23 个系。
• The Faculty of Animal Husbandry was added in 1962, followed by the Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology in 1963 and the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology in 1964.畜牧学院于 1962 年增设，农业经济学与农村社会学院于 1963 年设立，农业工程与技术学院于 1964 年成立。
• In February 1963 Ghani left to become vice-chancellor of the University of Dacca, and S. D. Chaudhuri took over the young agricultural university.1963 年 2 月，加尼转任达卡大学副校长，S·D·乔杜里接掌这所年轻的农业大学。
• The American architect Paul Rudolph was commissioned in 1965 to design a master plan that would remake the former college campus, and construction of the main buildings continued for a decade.美国建筑师保罗·鲁道夫于 1965 年受聘制定总体规划，改造原学院校园，主要建筑的建设持续了十年。
• The sixth and newest faculty, Fisheries, was created in 1967, completing the six-faculty structure that still organises the university's teaching.第六个也是最新的学院——水产学院于 1967 年设立，由此形成至今仍在沿用的六院结构。
• Students were politically active in the 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising: they boycotted classes on 23 January after police firing in Dacca, and on 24 January two people were killed and twenty wounded on the picket lines in Mymensingh.学生在 1969 年东巴基斯坦大规模运动中表现活跃：达卡发生警察开枪后，他们于 1 月 23 日罢课，1 月 24 日迈门辛的纠察线上有两人被打死、二十人受伤。
• On 29 January 1969 police and East Pakistan Rifles troops entered the campus searching residential quarters for what they called miscreants, and students marched in protest on 10 February.1969 年 1 月 29 日，警察与东巴基斯坦步枪队进入校园，搜查宿舍区寻找所谓的「捣乱分子」，学生于 2 月 10 日游行抗议。
• Biochemist Kamaluddin Ahmad became vice-chancellor in 1969, the same year the central library designed by Richard J. Neutra opened on campus.生物化学家卡马卢丁·艾哈迈德于 1969 年出任副校长，同年由理查德·纽特拉设计的中央图书馆在校园落成。
• During the 1971 Liberation War, one teacher, six employees and eleven students of the university were killed, a loss commemorated by the campus Shaheed Minar and by halls named after martyrs.1971 年解放战争期间，该校一名教师、六名职员与十一名学生丧生，校园的烈士纪念碑以及以烈士命名的宿舍都纪念着这一损失。
• In 1972, after independence, the university was renamed Bangladesh Agricultural University, and it was then the only agricultural university among the country's six universities.1972 年独立后，学校更名为孟加拉国农业大学，当时全国仅有六所大学，它是其中唯一一所农业大学。
• The university opened the country's first Agricultural Museum in 2007, and in 2009 the Fish Museum and Biodiversity Centre was founded by Stirling University in a building donated by BAU.学校于 2007 年开设全国第一座农业博物馆，2009 年斯特灵大学又在 BAU 捐赠的建筑中创办了鱼类博物馆与生物多样性中心。
• BAU remained a purely agricultural institution through the 1980s and 1990s, adding departments rather than faculties, so the six-faculty structure set by 1967 has proved durable.1980 年代与 1990 年代，BAU 始终保持纯农业院校的性质，只增设系而不再增设学院，1967 年定下的六院格局因此沿用至今。
• From 2019 all public agricultural universities in Bangladesh adopted a cluster admission system, with one integrated entrance examination held simultaneously at several centres.自 2019 年起，孟加拉国所有公立农业大学实行集群招生制度，在同一时间于多个考点举行一场统一入学考试。
• In October 2024, 51,836 candidates sat that cluster examination for 3,718 seats, of which 1,116 were at BAU, and the university then decided to leave the cluster before agreeing to stay for one more year.2024 年 10 月，51836 名考生参加这场集群考试竞争 3718 个名额，其中 1116 个在 BAU，学校随后决定退出集群，但在教育部要求下同意再延续一年。
• During the 2024 quota reform movement, BAU students rallied, marched and repeatedly blockaded the Dhaka-Mymensingh railway tracks for hours at a time.2024 年配额改革运动期间，BAU 学生集会、游行，并多次封锁达卡至迈门辛的铁路线，每次长达数小时。
• The 1961 ordinance remained the governing statute after independence, amended successively by the governments of East Pakistan and Bangladesh, and the president of Bangladesh serves as chancellor ex officio.1961 年条例在独立后仍是学校的治理法规，先后经东巴基斯坦与孟加拉国政府修订，孟加拉国总统依职权担任校监。
• A K Fazlul Haque Bhuiyan became vice-chancellor in September 2024, inheriting a university that had just restructured its admission arrangements and its hall naming.AK·法兹卢尔·哈克·布伊扬于 2024 年 9 月就任副校长，接手一所刚刚调整招生安排与宿舍命名的大学。
• The campus remembers two dates in its built landscape: the 1952 language movement at the Shaheed Minar and the 1971 war at the Bijoy '71 sculpture, unveiled in 2000.校园建筑景观记住两个日子：烈士纪念碑纪念 1952 年语言运动，2000 年揭幕的「胜利 71」雕塑纪念 1971 年战争。

Academics

• Teaching is organised in six faculties, Agriculture, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Veterinary Science, which between them run 45 departments.教学由六个学院承担，即农学院、农业经济学与农村社会学院、农业工程与技术学院、畜牧学院、水产学院与兽医学院，六院共设 45 个系。
• The university's own programme list for 2026 records nine undergraduate programmes, 51 graduate programmes and 45 doctoral programmes, a ratio that makes postgraduate study its dominant activity.学校 2026 年的专业目录列有 9 个本科专业、51 个研究生专业和 45 个博士专业，这一比例使研究生教育成为其办学主体。
• The Faculty of Agriculture is the largest, with 17 departments covering agronomy, horticulture, plant pathology, entomology, soil science, genetics and plant breeding and agricultural extension.农学院规模最大，下设 17 个系，涵盖农学、园艺、植物病理学、昆虫学、土壤学、遗传育种与农业推广等领域。
• The Faculty of Veterinary Science, one of the two original faculties, runs eight departments and teaches in the veterinary hospital and the teaching farm that date from the college era.兽医学院是两个创校学院之一，下设八个系，教学依托可追溯至学院时期的兽医医院与教学农场。
• The Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, added in 1963, teaches agribusiness and marketing, agricultural economics, agricultural finance and banking, applied statistics and rural sociology.1963 年增设的农业经济学与农村社会学院开设农业企业与营销、农业经济学、农业金融与银行、应用统计与农村社会学等专业。
• The Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology combines farm power and machinery, farm structure and environmental engineering, food technology and rural industries, irrigation and water management, and computer science and mathematics.农业工程与技术学院整合了农业动力与机械、农业建筑与环境工程、食品技术与农村工业、灌溉与水资源管理以及计算机科学与数学等方向。
• The Faculty of Animal Husbandry and the Faculty of Fisheries each run five departments, covering animal breeding, nutrition, dairy and poultry science on one side and aquaculture, fisheries biology, management, technology and marine fisheries on the other.畜牧学院与水产学院各设五个系，前者覆盖动物育种、营养、乳品与家禽科学，后者覆盖水产养殖、渔业生物学、渔业管理、渔业技术与海洋渔业。
• Three institutes support research and outreach: the Graduate Training Institute, the Institute of Agribusiness and Developmental Studies and the Interdisciplinary Institute for Food Security.三个研究所支撑科研与推广工作：研究生培训研究所、农业企业与产业发展研究所、跨学科粮食安全研究所。
• The university's academic year runs from July to June on a semester system, and it awards bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees under University Grants Commission accreditation.学校学年自 7 月至次年 6 月，实行学期制，在大学拨款委员会认证下授予学士、硕士与博士学位。
• More than 90 per cent of recurring funding comes from the national government through the University Grants Commission, which also finances all capital projects.学校经常性经费的九成以上来自国家政府，经大学拨款委员会拨付，所有基建项目也由该委员会出资。
• Undergraduate admission requires a Higher Secondary Certificate and a competitive entrance examination, and the cluster system introduced in 2019 pools candidates across the public agricultural universities.本科录取要求高中毕业证书并通过竞争性入学考试，2019 年引入的集群制度则把各公立农业大学的考生集中在一起选拔。
• The Journal of the Bangladesh Agricultural University, published for the BAU Research System since 2003, is a quarterly peer-reviewed open-access journal covering all fields of agricultural science.《孟加拉国农业大学学报》自 2003 年起由 BAU 科研系统出版，是季刊、同行评审的开放获取期刊，覆盖农业科学各领域。
• Ten major farms, including dairy, poultry and crop farms, serve teaching and variety trials, and the campus also hosts two national research bodies, the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture and the Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute.包括乳牛场、家禽场与作物农场在内的十个主要农场服务教学与品种试验，校园内还驻有孟加拉国核农业研究所与孟加拉国渔业研究所两个国家级科研机构。
• The central library holds 185,000 volumes and 2,000 periodicals as of 2025, together with dissertations, microforms and audiovisual material, and the Faculty of Agricultural Economics keeps its own library.截至 2025 年，中央图书馆藏有 18.5 万册图书与 2000 种期刊，另有学位论文、缩微资料与音像资料，农业经济学院还另设专业图书室。
• Enrolment stands at more than 5,000 undergraduates and nearly 3,000 postgraduates as of 2024, a postgraduate share far above the national average for Bangladeshi universities.截至 2024 年，在校本科生超过 5000 人、研究生近 3000 人，其研究生占比远高于孟加拉国大学的平均水平。
• Doctoral training is concentrated in the applied sciences, with 45 PhD programmes and a separate dormitory for doctoral students on campus.博士培养集中于应用科学领域，全校设 45 个博士专业，校园内另有专门的博士生宿舍。
• Teaching is in English and Bengali, and the university's laboratory and field courses are built around the rice, jute, fish and livestock economy of the Brahmaputra floodplain.教学使用英语与孟加拉语，实验与田间课程围绕布拉马普特拉河洪泛平原的水稻、黄麻、渔业与畜牧业经济展开。

Campus

• The campus covers about 1,260 acres on the west bank of the Old Brahmaputra River, roughly three kilometres south of Mymensingh town, and is bounded on the east by the river.校园占地约 1260 英亩，位于旧布拉马普特拉河西岸，距迈门辛城区以南约三公里，东侧以河为界。
• Paul Rudolph's 1965 master plan gave the campus its modernist order, with brick and concrete buildings arranged along a palm-lined east-west avenue.保罗·鲁道夫 1965 年的总体规划赋予校园现代主义的秩序，砖与混凝土建筑沿一条棕榈夹道的的东西向大道排列。
• That avenue divides the academic and administrative buildings to the north from the residential and recreational facilities to the south, a division that still holds.这条大道把北侧的教学与行政建筑与南侧的生活、休闲设施分开，这一格局至今未变。
• The central library opened in 1969 in a building by Richard J. Neutra, was originally two storeys, and gained a third storey in a 2001 expansion.中央图书馆 1969 年在理查德·纽特拉设计的建筑中启用，原为两层，2001 年扩建时加建了第三层。
• At the east end of the avenue stands the Shaheed Minar, the monument to the 1952 Bengali language movement, and nearby is the 2000 sculpture Bijoy '71 by Shaymol Chowdhury.大道东端矗立着纪念 1952 年孟加拉语运动的烈士纪念碑，附近是沙伊莫尔·乔杜里 2000 年创作的雕塑「胜利 71」。
• The Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Auditorium seats nearly 2,000 and hosts cultural programmes, while the Teacher-Student Centre provides dining, newspaper reading rooms and offices for student societies.希尔波查里亚·扎伊努尔·阿贝丁礼堂可容纳近 2000 人，承办文化活动；师生中心则设有餐厅、阅报室以及学生社团办公室。
• The Botanical Garden on the river bank held 1,500 species in 2025, representing about 300 genera and 200 families and more than a fifth of Bangladesh's flora, including 58 threatened or near-threatened species.河岸的植物园 2025 年收集 1500 个物种，分属约 300 个属、200 个科，涵盖孟加拉国植物区系五分之一以上，其中包括 58 种受威胁或近危物种。
• The garden is divided into 30 zones by plant type and includes rock gardens, water gardens and an orchid house, and it is managed by the Department of Crop Botany.植物园按植物类型分为 30 个区，设有岩石园、水生园与兰室，由作物植物学系管理。
• The Agricultural Museum, opened in 2007, was the first of its kind in the country and holds about 500 agricultural implements, while the Fish Museum and Biodiversity Centre dates from 2009.2007 年开放的农业博物馆是全国首座同类博物馆，收藏约 500 件农具；鱼类博物馆与生物多样性中心则建于 2009 年。
• Fourteen gender-segregated halls house students, nine for men and five for women, among them Ashraful Haque Hall, Shahjalal Hall, Begum Rokeya Hall and Krishi Kanya Hall.十四座男女分设的宿舍容纳学生，其中男生宿舍九座、女生宿舍五座，包括阿什拉富尔·哈克舍、沙贾拉勒舍、贝古姆·罗基亚舍与「农之女」舍。
• The two newest women's halls were renamed in 2024 and 2025: one now carries the date 36 July, a reference to 5 August 2024, the day the student uprising forced Sheikh Hasina from office.两座最新的女生宿舍在 2024 与 2025 年更名，其中一座现名「7 月 36 日」，指向 2024 年 8 月 5 日学生起义迫使谢赫·哈西娜下台的那一天。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 BAU is placed in the 1401+ band, the open-ended final group of 102 institutions.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，BAU 被列入 1401+ 并列区间，这是 102 所高校共同处于的开放式末段。
• Times Higher Education places it in the 1001-1200 band for 2027, the strongest of its four main-table results.泰晤士高等教育将其列入 2027 年 1001 至 1200 区间，这是它在四大主榜中的最好成绩。
• U.S. News ranks BAU 1,290th globally for 2026-27 and fifth among the five Bangladeshi universities in that table, a marked rise from its tied 1,775th place in 2024.U.S. News 在 2026 至 2027 年度将其列为全球第 1290 位，在入榜的五所孟加拉国高校中居第五，较 2024 年并列第 1775 位明显上升。
• The university is absent from the main table of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, and no ARWU position is claimed for that year.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，该年度没有 ARWU 名次。
• In the 2024 Webometrics Ranking of World Universities it stood 9th among 170 Bangladeshi institutions and 2,323rd worldwide, a measure weighted towards web presence rather than research quality.在 2024 年世界大学网络计量排名中，它位列孟加拉国 170 所高校的第 9 位、全球第 2323 位，该排名更侧重网络可见度而非科研质量。
• Its international reputation rests on agricultural science: the university is widely cited in Asia for rice, jute, aquaculture and livestock research suited to delta conditions.其国际声誉建立在农业科学之上：学校因适应三角洲条件的水稻、黄麻、水产与畜牧研究而在亚洲广受引用。
• Among its staff and graduates are recipients of the Ekushey Padak and the Independence Award, the two highest civilian honours for scholarship and public service in Bangladesh.其教师与毕业生中有 Ekushey Padak 与独立奖的获得者，这两项是孟加拉国表彰学术与公共服务的最高文职荣誉。
• The university has trained most of the senior officials of Bangladesh's Department of Agricultural Extension and its research institutes, giving it outsized influence on national farm policy.该校培养了孟加拉国农业推广局及各研究所的大部分高级官员，对国家农业政策具有超出其规模的影响力。
• Its 2024 placement as fifth of five Bangladeshi universities in the U.S. News table nonetheless shows how thin the country's global research presence remains outside a handful of institutions.不过，2024 年在 U.S. News 榜单中位居五所孟加拉国高校之末，也说明该国除少数机构外，全球科研存在感仍然薄弱。

Student life

• The university motto is "Knowledge, Efficiency, Moral Character", and it is rendered in Bengali on the university crest and in English on official documents.校训意为知识、效率与品德，在校徽上用孟加拉语书写，在正式文件中用英文表述。
• The university colours are blue, green and gold, and they appear on hall flags, sports kit and graduation sashes.校色为蓝、绿、金三色，出现在宿舍旗帜、运动队服与毕业绶带上。
• Residential halls are the centre of student life: each hall has its own dining room, common room and sports teams, and inter-hall competition is the main campus sport structure.宿舍是学生生活的中心：每座宿舍都有自己的食堂、公共活动室与运动队，舍际比赛构成校园体育的主要结构。
• Hall names carry political memory, from the three halls named after shaheed fighters of 1971 to the renaming of the two newest women's halls after the 2024 uprising.宿舍命名承载政治记忆，从三座以 1971 年烈士命名的宿舍，到 2024 年起义后两座最新女生宿舍的更名。
• The Shaheed Minar is the focus of Ekushey February observances, when students walk in procession at dawn to mark the 1952 language movement.烈士纪念碑是 2 月 21 日「不朽的语言日」纪念活动的中心，学生在该日凌晨列队游行，纪念 1952 年语言运动。
• The Teacher-Student Centre houses debating, drama and music societies, and the Zainul Abedin Auditorium stages concerts, plays and the annual cultural week.师生中心容纳辩论、戏剧与音乐社团，扎伊努尔·阿贝丁礼堂则举办音乐会、戏剧演出与年度文化周。
• The botanical garden, the agricultural museum and the riverside walks give the campus a life beyond classrooms in a town of about 500,000 people on the Brahmaputra.植物园、农业博物馆与河畔步道让校园生活不止于课堂，校园所在的布拉马普特拉河畔城市约有 50 万人口。
• Mymensingh's agricultural economy shapes student life: markets, rice mills and fish farms around the town are used as informal laboratories by students and staff alike.迈门辛的农业经济塑造了学生生活：城郊的集市、碾米厂与养鱼场，师生都当作非正式的实验场。

Notable people

• M Osman Ghani, a soil scientist, was the university's first vice-chancellor from 1961 to 1963 and later led the University of Dacca.土壤学家 M·奥斯曼·加尼是该校 1961 至 1963 年的首任副校长，此后出任达卡大学校长。
• Kamaluddin Ahmad, a biochemist, served as vice-chancellor from 1969 and oversaw the opening of the Neutra library and the campus expansion of the early 1970s.生物化学家卡马卢丁·艾哈迈德自 1969 年起任副校长，主持了纽特拉图书馆的启用与 1970 年代初的校园扩建。
• Humayun Ahmed, one of Bangladesh's most widely read novelists and filmmakers, taught in the university's chemistry department before turning to writing full time.胡马云·艾哈迈德是孟加拉国读者最多的作家与电影导演之一，在专职写作之前曾在该校化学系任教。
• Shamsuzzaman Khan, a folklorist and later director general of the Bangla Academy, taught at BAU and wrote on the folk culture of the Mymensingh region.民间文学研究者、后任孟加拉学院总干事的沙姆苏扎曼·汗曾在 BAU 任教，并研究迈门辛地区的民间文化。
• Abdul Karim, a soil scientist, is remembered for his work on the floodplain soils of the Brahmaputra and for training a generation of soil surveyors.土壤学家阿卜杜勒·卡里姆以研究布拉马普特拉河洪泛平原土壤并培养一代土壤调查人员而为人所记。
• Abdur Rahim, a horticultural scientist, received the Independence Award, Bangladesh's highest state honour, for his work on vegetable and fruit production.园艺学家阿卜杜勒·拉希姆因在蔬菜与水果生产方面的贡献获得独立奖，这是孟加拉国最高的国家荣誉。
• Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, an alumnus, served as minister of agriculture from 2019 to 2024 and shaped the country's fertiliser and seed subsidy policy.校友穆罕默德·阿卜杜勒·拉扎克于 2019 至 2024 年担任农业部长，主导了该国的化肥与种子补贴政策。
• Shamsul Alam, an agricultural economist and alumnus, served as state minister of planning and is known for his work on poverty and food security.农业经济学家、校友沙姆苏尔·阿拉姆曾担任计划国务部长，以贫困与粮食安全研究著称。
• Jahangir Alam Khan, an agricultural economist, received the Ekushey Padak for research on rural credit and cooperatives in Bangladesh.农业经济学家贾汉吉尔·阿拉姆·汗因在孟加拉国农村信贷与合作组织方面的研究获 Ekushey Padak 奖。
• Md. Tofazzal Islam, a biotechnologist and alumnus, works on plant-microbe interactions and biological control of crop diseases.生物技术学者、校友穆罕默德·托法扎尔·伊斯兰研究植物与微生物互作以及作物病害的生物防治。