Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (Slovak: Slovenská poľnohospodárska univerzita v Nitre, SPU) is the only agricultural university in Slovakia, a public institution founded in Nitra in 1952.斯洛伐克农业大学（Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra，斯洛伐克语 Slovenská poľnohospodárska univerzita v Nitre，简称 SPU）是斯洛伐克唯一的农业类公立大学，1952 年在尼特拉成立。
Its six faculties teach agrobiology, biotechnology, food science, economics and management, agricultural engineering, European studies and regional development, and horticulture and landscape engineering, and each runs its own laboratories and admission procedure.六个学院分别教授农业生物学、生物技术、食品科学、经济与管理、农业工程、欧洲研究与区域发展、园艺与景观工程，各学院自设实验室并单独组织招生。
QS placed it in the 1201-1400 band for 2027, Times Higher Education in 1401-1600, U.S. News at 1449 for 2026-2027, and the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities did not list it in the main table.QS 将其列入 2027 年 1201-1400 区间，泰晤士高等教育列在 1401-1600，U.S. News 2026-2027 年度排第 1449 名，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜未收录该校。
History
Nitra is one of the oldest cities in Slovakia, first recorded in written sources around 826 and home to a bishopric in the ninth-century Great Moravian state, with its castle and Cathedral of Saint Emmeram overlooking the Nitra River.尼特拉是斯洛伐克最古老的城市之一，约 826 年见于文字记载，九世纪大摩拉维亚时期即设主教座，城堡与圣埃默拉姆主教座堂俯瞰尼特拉河。
Higher agricultural education in Slovakia began at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, where a Department of Forestry and Agricultural Engineering was created in 1941 and taught its first students in the 1941/42 academic year.斯洛伐克的高等农业教育始于布拉迪斯拉发的斯洛伐克技术大学，该校 1941 年设立林业与农业工程系，1941/42 学年迎来首批学生。
In 1946 the Slovak National Council turned that department into a separate University of Agricultural and Forest Engineering in Košice, giving the field its first independent university.1946 年，斯洛伐克民族议会将该系独立为设在科希策的农业与林业工程大学，这一领域由此拥有第一所独立高校。
A reorganisation in 1952 abolished the Košice university and split its faculties between two new institutions, the University of Agriculture in Nitra and the University of Forestry and Wood Technology in Zvolen.1952 年的改组撤销了科希策的大学，把其院系分给两所新高校，即尼特拉的农业大学与兹沃伦的林业与木材技术大学。
The Nitra university opened with two faculties, Agronomy and Animal Husbandry, and enrolled its first cohort in the 1952/53 academic year.尼特拉的农业大学创办时只有农学院与畜牧学院两个学院，首批学生于 1952/53 学年入学。
A faculty of economics and management was added in 1959, giving farm economics, accounting and agricultural policy their own teaching staff and research agenda.1959 年增设经济与管理学院，农业经济、会计与农业政策由此拥有独立的教学团队与研究议程。
The Faculty of Agricultural Engineering was established in 1969, separating the teaching of tractors, harvesters and food-processing machinery from the agronomy faculty.1969 年设立农业工程学院，拖拉机、联合收割机与食品加工机械的教学从农学院中分离出来。
During the 1970s the campus along Trieda Andreja Hlinku took shape, with the main teaching building, laboratory wings and student hostels laid out on the northern edge of the city.1970 年代，赫林库大街沿线的校园逐步成形，教学主楼、实验楼群与学生宿舍在城市的北缘铺开。
The Velvet Revolution of 1989 brought academic self-government, and the university rewrote curricula that had been centralised under the communist planning system.1989 年的天鹅绒革命带来学术自治，学校重新编写了共产主义计划体制下被统一规定的课程。
When Czechoslovakia dissolved in 1993, the university became a state institution of the newly independent Slovak Republic.1993 年捷克斯洛伐克解体，该校成为新独立的斯洛伐克共和国的国立高校。
The Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering was founded in 1995, adding viticulture, pomology, vegetable growing and garden design to the degree portfolio.1995 年设立园艺与景观工程学院，把葡萄栽培、果树学、蔬菜生产与园林设计纳入学位体系。
In 1996 the school adopted the name Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, distinguishing it from other agricultural colleges in the country.1996 年，学校正式采用“尼特拉的斯洛伐克农业大学”这一校名，以区别于国内其他农业院校。
A 2003 reorganisation merged and renamed the old agronomy and animal husbandry faculties into the Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources and the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences.2003 年的重组把原有的农学院与畜牧学院合并并改名，形成农业生物学与食品资源学院以及生物技术与食品科学学院。
The Faculty of European Studies and Regional Development followed in 2004, created to train officials for European Union rural policy and structural funds.2004 年又设立欧洲研究与区域发展学院，为欧盟农村政策与结构基金培养管理人才。
In 2008 the engineering faculty was renamed and its programmes regrouped around agricultural machinery, food technology and quality management.2008 年，工程学院更名并重组课程，把农业机械、食品技术与质量管理归入同一学院。
Peter Bielik, an economist who had studied at the university from 1972 to 1977 and headed its Department of Economics from 1994 to 1997, became rector in the 2010/11 academic year and served until 2018.经济学家彼得·别利克 1972 至 1977 年在本校求学，1994 至 1997 年主持经济系，2010/11 学年出任校长，任职至 2018 年。
Klaudia Halászová, a landscape and environmental scholar, was elected rector in 2018 and has led the university since.景观与环境学者克劳迪娅·哈拉萨绍娃于 2018 年当选校长，任职至今。
In October 2018 the university signed an Erasmus+ exchange agreement with Shandong Agricultural University in China, offering doctoral students three-month placements with an 800 euro monthly allowance.2018 年 10 月，学校与中国山东农业大学签署 Erasmus+ 交换协议，为博士生提供三个月交流机会与每月 800 欧元补助。
In August 2021 Li Xiangnan, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was appointed a visiting professor, working on crop physiology and agroecology with Nitra colleagues.2021 年 8 月，中国科学院研究员李向楠受聘为客座教授，与尼特拉同行合作研究作物生理与农业生态。
The university marked seventy-three years since its founding in 2025, a span in which it grew from two faculties to six and from a regional college into the country's central agricultural institution.2025 年，学校迎来建校七十三周年，其间从两个学院扩展到六个学院，从地区性学院成长为全国农业教育的中心。
Academics
The six faculties are Agrobiology and Food Resources, Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Economics and Management, Agricultural Engineering, European Studies and Regional Development, and Horticulture and Landscape Engineering.六个学院分别是农业生物学与食品资源、生物技术与食品科学、经济与管理、农业工程、欧洲研究与区域发展、园艺与景观工程。
Degrees follow the Bologna structure, with a bachelor's stage followed by the engineer's degree that serves as the Slovak master's qualification, and then a doctorate.学位遵循博洛尼亚结构，先读学士，再读作为斯洛伐克硕士资格的工程师学位，最后攻读博士。
The Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources teaches crop production, animal husbandry, plant protection, soil science and sustainable agriculture, and runs its own experimental fields.农业生物学与食品资源学院教授作物生产、畜牧、植物保护、土壤学与可持续农业，并经营自己的试验田。
The Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences covers food technology, food safety, biotechnology, applied biology and human nutrition, with laboratories for food composition and contaminant analysis.生物技术与食品科学学院覆盖食品技术、食品安全、生物技术、应用生物学与人类营养，并设食品成分与污染物分析实验室。
The Faculty of Economics and Management teaches agricultural economics, business management, accounting, finance, marketing and rural development, and supplies economists to the Ministry of Agriculture.经济与管理学院教授农业经济、企业管理、会计、金融、市场营销与农村发展，为农业部输送经济学人才。
The Faculty of Agricultural Engineering trains engineers in machinery, transport, food-processing equipment, quality control and renewable energy, and maintains workshops and testing grounds.农业工程学院培养机械、运输、食品加工设备、质量控制与可再生能源方向的工程师，并设车间与试验场。
The Faculty of European Studies and Regional Development focuses on European integration, regional policy, rural sociology and project management, often with lecturers who have worked in Brussels or regional government.欧洲研究与区域发展学院聚焦欧洲一体化、区域政策、农村社会学与项目管理，授课教师多在布鲁塞尔或地区政府任职过。
The Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering covers viticulture, fruit growing, vegetable production, floriculture, garden design and landscape planning.园艺与景观工程学院覆盖葡萄栽培、果树种植、蔬菜生产、花卉学、园林设计与景观规划。
Teaching is mainly in Slovak, but a growing number of master's and doctoral programmes are taught in English for Erasmus and fee-paying international students.教学以斯洛伐克语为主，但越来越多的硕士与博士项目用英语授课，面向 Erasmus 与自费国际学生。
As the country's only agricultural university, it carries a national mandate in agricultural education, extension and policy advice, and its staff sit on ministry and research agency boards.作为全国唯一的农业大学，它承担农业教育、技术推广与政策咨询的国家职能，教师任职于部委与科研机构理事会。
Research spans plant genetics and breeding, animal nutrition, food analysis, agricultural economics, climate adaptation, soil conservation and rural development.研究覆盖植物遗传与育种、动物营养、食品分析、农业经济、气候适应、土壤保持与农村发展。
The AgroBioTech Research Centre, built with European Union structural funds, concentrates genomics, metabolomics, food quality and bioenergy equipment in one complex and hosts doctoral projects run with the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the National Agricultural and Food Centre at Lužianky.用欧盟结构基金建成的 AgroBioTech 研究中心把基因组学、代谢组学、食品质量与生物能源设备集中在一座建筑内，并与斯洛伐克科学院及卢日安基的国家农业与食品中心联合培养博士生。
The university operates experimental farms and fields around Nitra, where students practise crop rotation, livestock handling, milking and the calibration of spraying and harvesting equipment.学校在尼特拉周边经营实验农场与农田，学生在此练习轮作、牲畜管理、挤奶以及喷药与收割设备的校准。
Its library and publishing house issue academic journals in agronomy, food science and agricultural economics, maintain a repository of theses and research reports, and run lifelong-learning courses for farmers, farm advisers and food inspectors.学校图书馆与出版社发行农学、食品科学与农业经济学期刊，维护学位论文与研究报告的仓储库，并为农场主、农业顾问与食品检验员开设终身学习课程。
International links run through Erasmus+, CEEPUS and bilateral agreements with agricultural universities in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine and China.国际合作通过 Erasmus+、CEEPUS 以及与捷克、匈牙利、波兰、乌克兰和中国农业院校的双边协议展开。
Cooperation with China includes a 2015 visit by faculty from China Agricultural University, the 2018 Shandong agreement and the 2021 appointment of Li Xiangnan as a visiting professor.对华合作包括 2015 年中国农业大学学者来访、2018 年与山东农业大学的协议，以及 2021 年聘任李向楠为客座教授。
The university takes part in European research framework projects and in monitoring the Common Agricultural Policy, work that ties its economists to Brussels and to Slovak farm organisations.学校参与欧洲科研框架项目与共同农业政策监测，其经济学者因此与布鲁塞尔及斯洛伐克农场组织保持联系。
Admission rests on secondary-school results and entrance examinations that vary by faculty, with agriculture and engineering programmes drawing students from vocational agricultural schools.录取依据中学成绩与各学院自行组织的入学考试，农业与工程专业主要吸引农业职业学校的学生。
Campus
The campus occupies a compact site at Trieda Andreja Hlinku 2 on the northern side of Nitra, with teaching buildings, laboratories, hostels and canteens within walking distance of one another.校园位于尼特拉北侧的赫林库大街 2 号，占地紧凑，教学楼、实验室、宿舍与食堂彼此步行可达。
Nitra lies on the Nitra River at the southern foot of Zobor hill, about 90 kilometres east of Bratislava and less than an hour's drive from the Hungarian border.尼特拉位于尼特拉河畔、佐博尔山南麓，距布拉迪斯拉发约 90 公里，距匈牙利边境不到一小时车程。
Nitra Castle, the Cathedral of Saint Emmeram and the remains of the ninth-century bishop's church stand in the old town, a fifteen-minute walk from the campus.尼特拉城堡、圣埃默拉姆主教座堂与九世纪主教教堂遗址位于老城，从校园步行约十五分钟。
The buildings show the layers of the university's growth, from the plain 1970s teaching blocks to the glass-fronted AgroBioTech centre opened in the 2010s, and the compact layout lets students cross the whole site on foot between lectures and laboratory sessions.校园建筑呈现学校发展的层层痕迹，从 1970 年代朴素的教学楼到 2010 年代启用的玻璃幕墙 AgroBioTech 中心，紧凑的布局让学生在教学楼与实验室之间全程步行。
Experimental fields, greenhouses and orchards lie at the edge of the campus and on the city's outskirts, giving agronomy and horticulture students daily access to growing space.试验田、温室与果园分布在校园边缘与市郊，使农学与园艺学生每天都能接触种植空间。
Student hostels offer single and shared rooms with kitchens, laundry rooms and internet, and the canteen serves Slovak dishes alongside subsidised student menus.学生宿舍提供单人间与合住房，配厨房、洗衣房与网络，食堂供应斯洛伐克菜肴与有补贴的学生套餐。
Sports grounds, a gymnasium and fitness rooms sit on campus, while the Nitra River embankment and the Zobor trails provide running, cycling and hiking routes.校园内设运动场、体育馆与健身房，尼特拉河堤与佐博尔山步道则提供跑步、骑行与徒步路线。
The old town's pedestrian zone, with its cafes and shops, is a short walk away, the railway and bus stations are about twenty minutes from the main teaching building, and buses to the surrounding villages leave from stops near the old town.老城步行街的咖啡馆与商店近在咫尺，火车站与长途汽车站距教学主楼约二十分钟，开往周边村庄的班车也从老城附近发车。
The surrounding Nitra region is one of Slovakia's warmest and most fertile farming areas, with vineyards, orchards and grain fields that serve as outdoor laboratories.尼特拉周边是斯洛伐克最温暖、最肥沃的农业区之一，葡萄园、果园与粮田充当露天实验室。
Reputation
QS ranked the university in the 1201-1400 band for 2027, Times Higher Education placed it in 1401-1600, U.S. News put it at 1449 for 2026-2027, and the 2026 ARWU main table omitted it.QS 把该校列入 2027 年 1201-1400 区间，泰晤士高等教育列在 1401-1600，U.S. News 2026-2027 年度排第 1449 名，2026 年软科主榜未收录。
In the QS subject ranking for agriculture and forestry the university sits in the 101-150 band, its strongest international result and the one it cites most often.在 QS 农业与林业学科排名中，学校处于 101-150 区间，这是其最强的国际位次，也是校方最常引用的成绩。
QS also placed it in the 1501+ group of its sustainability ranking and at 396 in its European ranking, positions that reflect modest research volume rather than teaching quality.QS 可持续发展排名把该校列入 1501+ 组，欧洲榜列第 396 位，这些位次反映的是科研体量有限，而非教学质量。
At home it shares Nitra with Constantine the Philosopher University, but it is far smaller and the only institution in the country devoted wholly to agriculture, food and rural development.在国内它与尼特拉君士坦丁哲人大学共享这座城市，但规模小得多，且是全国唯一专注农业、食品与农村发展的高校。
Because it is the national agricultural university, it holds a structural place in the Ministry of Agriculture, the forest service, the agricultural research institutes and the extension service, and its staff advise the Ministry of Education and sit on European Union farm subsidy panels.作为国立农业大学，它在农业部、林业机构、农业研究所与推广系统中占据制度性位置，其学者还为教育部提供咨询并参加欧盟农业补贴评审。
The QS profile for 2025 counted 4168 students and 377 teachers, a ratio of about eleven students per teacher that makes it a small, specialised institution.QS 2025 年档案记录该校有 4168 名学生与 377 名教师，约十一名学生配一名教师，属于小而专的院校。
Some 215 of those students were international, roughly five per cent of the total, drawn mainly from other European Union states and from Asia.其中约 215 名是国际学生，占总数的百分之五左右，主要来自其他欧盟成员国与亚洲。
OpenAlex records 8302 works and 258984 citations under its name, an average of about thirty-one citations per paper that is respectable for an agricultural university.OpenAlex 在该校名下记录 8302 篇作品与 258984 次被引，篇均约三十一次，对农业大学而言相当可观。
It has no Nobel laureates, and its reputation rests on applied agricultural science, food technology and Central European rural policy rather than on prizes, with visibility coming from subject rankings rather than from a large research output.该校没有诺贝尔奖得主，其声誉建立在应用农业科学、食品技术与中欧农村政策之上，国际能见度更多来自学科排名而非庞大的科研产出。
Its degrees are recognised across the European Union, and graduates work in farming, food processing, agribusiness, inspection services and regional administration.其学位在欧盟范围内获得承认，毕业生就职于农场、食品加工企业、农业综合企业、检验机构与地区行政部门。
Student life
The academic year runs from September to May in winter and summer semesters, with examination periods in January and February and again in May and June, and the summer semester closes with state examinations and thesis defences.学年从 9 月到次年 5 月，分冬季与夏季学期，考试期在 1 至 2 月以及 5 至 6 月，夏季学期以国家考试与论文答辩收尾。
New students attend an enrolment ceremony and campus tour in September, and the year closes with graduations and faculty days in May and June.新生在 9 月参加入学典礼与校园导览，学年以 5 至 6 月的毕业典礼与学院日活动收尾。
Student organisations include the university student council, the Erasmus student network and faculty clubs that run orientation, sports tournaments and cultural evenings.学生组织包括校学生会、Erasmus 学生网络与各学院俱乐部，负责迎新、体育赛事与文化晚会。
Agronomy and horticulture students spend much of the year in greenhouses and fields, so their timetables follow the seasons and spring sowing and autumn harvest are the busiest weeks.农学与园艺学生一年中大量时间在温室与田间，课程表随季节调整，春播与秋收是最忙的几周。
Nitra is a university town, and students from both local universities share the cafes, bars and rented flats of the old town, whose pedestrian street is the main evening meeting point.尼特拉是大学城，两所本地高校的学生共享老城的咖啡馆、酒吧与出租房，步行街是夜间主要的聚会地点。
Zobor hill and the Nitra riverbank are used for running, cycling and picnics, and summer brings open-air cinema and music events to the city.佐博尔山与尼特拉河堤是人们跑步、骑行与野餐的去处，夏季城市还会举办露天电影与音乐活动。
Hostel life includes international food nights, a Slovak language corner and inter-block sports leagues, and Erasmus students are paired with local buddies.宿舍生活包括国际美食夜、斯洛伐克语角与楼际体育联赛，Erasmus 学生会与本地伙伴结对。
Living costs are lower than in Bratislava, and hostel rents and canteen prices remain affordable for students from across Central and Eastern Europe.生活成本低于布拉迪斯拉发，宿舍租金与食堂价格对中东欧学生而言仍可负担。
Notable people
Klaudia Halászová, a landscape and environmental scholar, has been rector since 2018 and has pressed internationalisation and the modernisation of the campus.克劳迪娅·哈拉萨绍娃是景观与环境学者，2018 年起任校长，推动国际化与校园现代化。
Peter Bielik, born in Nitra in 1952, studied at the Faculty of Economics and Management from 1972 to 1977, led it as dean and served as rector from 2010 to 2018.彼得·别利克 1952 年生于尼特拉，1972 至 1977 年在经济与管理学院学习，后任该院院长，并于 2010 至 2018 年出任校长。
Zdenka Gálová, a professor of biotechnology, served as vice-rector and led a delegation to China Agricultural University in 2015.兹登卡·加洛娃是生物技术教授，曾任副校长，2015 年率团访问中国农业大学。
Danka Moravčíková, a social scientist at the Faculty of Economics and Management, researches rural society and the social organisation of food systems.丹卡·莫拉夫奇科娃是经济与管理学院的社会科学家，研究农村社会与食品体系的社会组织。
Natália Turčeková, a vice-dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management, works on agricultural policy and farm economics.娜塔莉亚·图尔切科娃是经济与管理学院副院长，研究农业政策与农场经济。
Miroslav Habán, an agronomist at the Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources, publishes on agronomic crops and aromatic plants.米罗斯拉夫·哈班是农业生物学与食品资源学院的农学家，发表农艺作物与芳香植物研究。
Július Árvay, a food scientist at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, studies food composition and contaminants.尤利乌斯·阿尔瓦伊是生物技术与食品科学学院的食品科学家，研究食品成分与污染物。
Simona Čerteková, a researcher in plant and environmental sciences, works on plant and environmental questions in the institute's laboratories.西莫娜·切尔捷科娃是植物与环境科学研究者，在研究所实验室研究植物与环境问题。
Joanna Korczyk-Szabó, a researcher at the Institute of Agronomic Sciences, works on aromatic and medicinal plants.约安娜·科尔奇克-萨博是农学研究所的研究员，研究芳香植物与药用植物。
Li Xiangnan, a plant physiologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, became a visiting professor in 2021 and cooperates on crop stress physiology.李向楠是中国科学院的植物生理学家，2021 年受聘客座教授，合作研究作物逆境生理。
Jiří Balík, rector of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, received an honorary doctorate in 2014 for work in plant nutrition and international cooperation.伊日·巴利克是布拉格捷克生命科学大学校长，2014 年因植物营养与国际合作方面的贡献获荣誉博士学位。
Ladislav Zeman, dean emeritus at Mendel University in Brno, holds an honorary doctorate from Nitra for research on animal nutrition.拉迪斯拉夫·泽曼是布尔诺孟德尔大学荣休院长，因动物营养研究获尼特拉授予的荣誉博士学位。
Its graduates are concentrated in Slovak agriculture, food companies, inspection bodies and farm schools, and its public profile rests more on agronomy and food science than on national politics.该校毕业生集中于斯洛伐克农业、食品企业、检验机构与农业学校，其公众形象更多来自农学与食品科学而非国家政治。