University of Agriculture, Faisalabad

The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF) is a public research university in the city of Faisalabad in the Punjab province of Pakistan, and by area it is the largest university in the country.费萨拉巴德农业大学（UAF）是巴基斯坦旁遮普省费萨拉巴德市的一所公立研究型大学，按占地计为全国规模最大的大学。

It traces its legacy to 1906, when the Punjab Agricultural College and Research Institute was established at Lyallpur as the subcontinent's first major institution of higher agricultural education, aiming to introduce modern agricultural teaching and scientific farming to the Punjab region.其办学传承可上溯至 1906 年，当年旁遮普农业学院与研究所在莱亚尔普尔设立，为次大陆最早的高等农业教育机构，旨在为旁遮普地区引入现代农业教学与科学耕作。

The university now enrols about 32,000 students, most of them undergraduates, and in the QS World University Rankings 2027 it is placed joint 629th in the world.学校现有约 32000 名学生，其中大多数为本科生，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列全球第 629 位。

History

• The university's origins lie in 1906, when the British colonial government established the Punjab Agricultural College and Research Institute at Lyallpur to bring modern agricultural education and scientific farming to the Punjab region.学校的起源可上溯至 1906 年，当时英国殖民政府在莱亚尔普尔设立旁遮普农业学院与研究所，为旁遮普地区引入现代农业教育与科学耕作。

• The foundation stone was laid by Sir Louis Dane, then lieutenant-governor of the Punjab, and the college opened its doors to students in 1909.奠基仪式由时任旁遮普副总督路易斯·戴恩爵士主持，学院于 1909 年正式招收学生。

• Lyallpur at the time was little more than a railway station on paper, and the college was founded amid what was then desert, before the canal colonies transformed the region.当时的莱亚尔普尔在地图上不过是个火车站，学院创办于一片荒漠之中，其后运河垦殖区才改变了这一地区。

• Thomas Brownlie served as principal of the college between 1923 and 1931, and research into cotton plants had already been under way since at least 1925.托马斯·布朗利在 1923 至 1931 年间任学院院长，而棉花研究至少自 1925 年起便已开展。

• At independence in 1947 Pakistan was a predominantly agricultural country, and the college was then the only institution of any kind in Pakistan carrying out agricultural research.1947 年独立时巴基斯坦以农业为主，当时该学院是全国唯一从事农业研究的机构。

• After independence the Government of Pakistan appointed National Commissions on Food and Education, which advocated the creation of an agricultural university for research and education.独立后，巴基斯坦政府任命了粮食与教育国家委员会，两委员会主张设立一所从事研究与教学的农业大学。

• Those recommendations led to the upgrade of the former Punjab Agricultural College and Research Institute to university status in 1961, under the name West Pakistan Agricultural University, Lyallpur.这些建议促成原旁遮普农业学院与研究所于 1961 年升格为大学，名为莱亚尔普尔西巴基斯坦农业大学。

• The university took its present name, the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, in 1973, following the renaming of the city of Lyallpur as Faisalabad.1973 年莱亚尔普尔市更名为费萨拉巴德后，学校启用现名费萨拉巴德农业大学。

• The Department of Agricultural Engineering and Technology was established in 1961 to train people for the growing needs of mechanised farming in the Punjab.农业工程与技术系于 1961 年设立，为旁遮普不断增长的机械化耕作需求培养人才。

• The Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology was established in 1963, and was restructured and renamed the Faculty of Social Sciences in 2012.农业经济与农村社会学学院于 1963 年设立，并于 2012 年重组并更名为社会科学学院。

• The Department of Fibre and Textile Technology, established in 1964, remains the only department in the country offering a master's degree programme in Fibre Technology.纤维与纺织技术系设立于 1964 年，至今仍是全国唯一开设纤维技术硕士课程的专业系。

• By 1989 the university was reported to have 345 academic staff, 3,400 undergraduates and 600 postgraduates, and to be the country's largest academic institution in agriculture.至 1989 年，该校据报拥有 345 名学术人员、3400 名本科生与 600 名研究生，是全国规模最大的农业学术机构。

• The Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics was created in 2012, merging the departments of agricultural economics, development economics and environmental and resource economics.农业与资源经济研究所于 2012 年成立，合并了农业经济学、发展经济学与环境及资源经济学三个系。

• The Department of Food Engineering started in 2012 to teach students to design and produce safe, high-quality and economical food products and processes for the food industry.食品工程系于 2012 年开办，教学生为食品工业设计并生产安全、优质且经济的食品与工艺。

• A sub-campus was established at Toba Tek Singh on 5 June 2005 to study the poultry industry, and it offers a four-year B.Sc. in Poultry Science.学校于 2005 年 6 月 5 日在托巴特克辛格设立分校，研究家禽产业，并开设四年制家禽科学理学士课程。

• A further sub-campus was established at Depalpur in 2007 and later transferred to Okara, in order to spread agricultural research across the central Punjab.另一分校于 2007 年在德帕尔普尔设立，后迁至奥卡拉，以将农业研究推广至旁遮普中部。

• Another sub-campus was set up at Burewala in the Vehari district to extend agricultural research across the country, especially in the south of the Punjab.又在维哈里县的布雷瓦拉设立分校，将农业研究推广至全国，尤以南旁遮普为重点。

• The College of Veterinary Sciences at Lahore, once affiliated to the university, became a separate institution known as the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore.曾附属于该校的拉合尔兽医学院后来独立为拉合尔兽医与动物科学大学。

• On 14 August 2012 the Institute of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development began broadcasting on FM Radio 100.4 to disseminate agricultural innovations among farm communities.2012 年 8 月 14 日，农业推广与农村发展研究所开始以 FM 100.4 广播，向农户传播农业创新。

• In October 2024 Professor Dr. Iqrar Ahmad Khan retired as Vice-Chancellor after fourteen years in the post, and Dr. Zulfiqar Ali succeeded him in the office.2024 年 10 月，伊克拉尔·艾哈迈德·汗教授在任职十四年后卸任校长，祖尔菲卡尔·阿里博士继任该职。

• Research funding grew sharply after the University Grants Commission was transformed into the Higher Education Commission, and UAF became the leading institution in winning research projects from the Technology Development Fund.在大学拨款委员会改组为高等教育委员会之后，学校的科研经费大幅增长，并成为赢得技术发展基金科研项目最多的高校。

Academics

• UAF is organised into faculties that include Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Food, Nutrition and Home Economics, Social Sciences, Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Science and Sciences.UAF 下设农业、农业工程与技术、食品营养与家政、社会科学、畜牧、兽医科学以及理学等学院。

• The university runs 28 teaching departments, and a community college sits on the main campus in Faisalabad to provide pre-degree agricultural training.学校设有 28 个教学系，主校区内另设一所社区学院，提供学位前的农业培训。

• The Faculty of Agriculture groups the departments of agronomy, plant breeding and genetics, agricultural entomology, plant pathology, crop physiology, and forestry, wildlife and range management.农学院下辖农学、植物育种与遗传、农业昆虫学、植物病理学、作物生理学，以及林业、野生动物与牧场管理等系。

• Within that faculty sit the Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, the Institute of Horticultural Sciences and the National Institute of Food Science and Technology.该学院内设土壤与环境科学研究所、园艺科学研究所，以及国家食品科学与技术研究所。

• The Faculty of Sciences includes the departments of botany, zoology and fisheries, chemistry and biochemistry, physics, mathematics and statistics, computer science and Islamic studies.理学院下辖植物学、动物学与渔业、化学与生物化学、物理学、数学与统计学、计算机科学以及伊斯兰研究等系。

• The university also offers evening courses leading to MBA, M.Com. and M.Sc. degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, botany, zoology, physics and computer science for working students.学校还为在职学生开设夜校课程，可攻读工商管理硕士、商业硕士以及化学、生物化学、植物学、动物学、物理学与计算机科学的硕士学位。

• Research centres include the Centre of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology and the U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security.研究平台包括农业生物化学与生物技术中心，以及美巴农业与粮食安全高级研究中心。

• The Faculty of Veterinary Science includes departments of anatomy, physiology and pharmacology, pathology, parasitology, microbiology, clinical medicine and surgery and theriogenology.兽医学院下辖解剖学、生理学与药理学、病理学、寄生虫学、微生物学、临床医学与外科学以及动物生殖学等系。

• The Faculty of Social Sciences is divided into the Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Institute of Business Management Sciences and the Institute of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development.社会科学学院分为农业与资源经济研究所、工商管理科学研究所，以及农业推广与农村发展研究所。

• The Faculty of Animal Husbandry covers animal breeding and genetics, livestock management, animal nutrition and poultry science, offering degrees in animal, dairy and poultry science.畜牧学院涵盖动物育种与遗传学、家畜管理、动物营养学与家禽科学，开设动物科学、乳品科学与家禽科学学位。

• It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in agriculture and allied fields, with B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and B.Sc. Food Science and Technology among its first degrees.学校在农业及相关领域开设本科与研究生学位，首批学位包括农学荣誉理学士、兽医学博士与食品科学与技术荣誉理学士。

• Postgraduate provision includes M.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in the pure sciences and Ph.D. programmes offered in 28 subjects across the faculties.研究生教育包括理学各科的硕士与哲学硕士学位，以及各学院开设的 28 个学科博士学位课程。

• Doctor of Pharmacy, Bachelor of Business Administration, BS Computer Science and BS Bioinformatics are among the other first-degree programmes on offer.药学博士、工商管理学士、计算机科学学士与生物信息学学士等，是学校开设的其他首批学位课程。

• In 2024/25 the university reported 31,687 students, made up of 24,205 undergraduates and 7,482 postgraduates, with women forming a clear majority.2024/25 学年学校报告在校生 31687 人，其中本科生 24205 人、研究生 7482 人，女性占明显多数。

• Its faculty and staff numbered 709 in 2024/25, including 228 foreign-trained PhD holders, 240 locally trained PhD holders and 214 non-PhD staff.2024/25 学年其教职员为 709 人，含 228 名海外培养博士、240 名本土培养博士与 214 名非博士人员。

• Teaching is supported by a university library, a Zoology Museum and an Art Gallery on the main campus, together with laboratories for agricultural science.教学由主校区的大学图书馆、动物学博物馆与美术馆支撑，并配有农业科学实验室。

• The university runs laboratory schools, including a Laboratory Higher Secondary School for boys and girls, a Junior Laboratory School and a girls' high school.学校设有实验学校，包括男、女实验高级中学，一所初级实验学校，以及一所女子中学。

• The Institute of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development publishes a quarterly agricultural journal for farmers and broadcasts innovations over the radio.农业推广与农村发展研究所为农户刊行季刊农业杂志，并通过广播传播创新。

• The University of Agriculture Press is the institution's academic publishing house, issuing monographs, textbooks and journals, most of them written by its own students and members of its teaching staff.农业大学出版部为学校的学术出版机构，刊行专著、教材与期刊，大多出自其本校学生与教学人员之手。

• OpenAlex records about 26,461 research works and more than 1.58 million citations for the university, a substantial output for an agricultural institution.OpenAlex 记录该校约 26461 件研究作品、被引逾 158 万次，对一所农业院校而言产出可观。

Campus

• The main campus sits in the centre of Faisalabad, about 2 km from the city centre and the clock tower and 12 km north-east of Faisalabad International Airport.主校区位于费萨拉巴德市中心，距市中心与钟楼约 2 公里，在费萨拉巴德国际机场东北 12 公里处。

• The campus is green, with a conglomeration of monolithic blocks built in a modern style, while the old campus recalls traditional Muslim architecture.校园绿意盎然，由现代风格的整体式楼群构成，而老校区则令人联想到传统穆斯林建筑。

• The university covers about 2,550 acres in total, making it the largest university in Pakistan by area, with large tracts devoted to experimental fields, orchards, dairy farms and poultry sheds.学校占地约 2550 英亩，按面积计为巴基斯坦最大的大学，其中大片土地用于试验田、果园、奶牛场与家禽舍。

• The main campus houses the university library, a zoology museum and an art gallery, along with auditoriums used for academic and public events.主校区设有大学图书馆、动物学博物馆与美术馆，以及用于学术与公共活动的礼堂。

• Residential accommodation includes hostels for men and women such as Jinnah Hostel, Iqbal Hall, Fatima Jinnah Hostel and Hailey Hall.住宿设施包括真纳宿舍、伊克巴尔堂、法蒂玛·真纳宿舍与黑利堂等男女学生宿舍。

• The hostels accommodate more than 15,000 resident students, alongside approximately 12,000 day scholars who commute to the campus each day.宿舍容纳逾 15000 名住宿学生，另有约 12000 名走读生每日往返校园。

• Three sub-campuses operate at Burewala in the Vehari district, at Toba Tek Singh and at Okara, extending the university's reach across the Punjab.学校在维哈里县布雷瓦拉、托巴特克辛格与奥卡拉设有三处分校，把影响力扩展到整个旁遮普。

• The recorded geographic position of the university is latitude 31.41554 and longitude 73.08969, placing it in the canal-irrigated heartland of the Punjab.学校登记的地理坐标为北纬 31.41554、东经 73.08969，位于旁遮普受运河灌溉的腹地。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is placed joint 629th in the world, the position it holds in the table to which this entry belongs.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校并列全球第 629 位，即其在本条目所属榜单中的名次。^[1]

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place UAF in the 701-800 band, keeping it within the world's leading research universities.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把 UAF 列入第 701-800 档，使其保持在全球领先研究型大学行列。

• In the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities table the university is listed at 633rd, a specific numeric rank rather than a banded range.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校列第 633 位，为具体名次而非档位区间。

• No position is recorded for the university in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, so it is absent from that year's ARWU main list.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名未录该校名次，故其缺席当年该榜主榜。

• Pakistan's Higher Education Commission ranks the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad first in the country in the agriculture and veterinary sciences category.巴基斯坦高等教育委员会把费萨拉巴德农业大学列为全国农业与兽医科学类第一名。

• In the general category the Higher Education Commission placed the university fourth among the top ten universities of Pakistan in its 2015 ranking.在 2015 年的综合类排名中，高等教育委员会把该校列为巴基斯坦十强大学的第四名。

• OpenAlex records about 26,461 works and 1,584,241 citations, reflecting a concentrated research effort in agricultural and veterinary science.OpenAlex 记录约 26461 件作品、1584241 次被引，反映其在农业与兽医科学上的集中投入。

• A statement attributed to the university in 2024 put it at 12th in Asia and first in Pakistan for agriculture in a QS subject ranking.2024 年校方的一则表述称，该校在 QS 学科排名中位列亚洲第 12、巴基斯坦农业类第一。

• The university is a major centre for agricultural research in South Asia, partnering with the University of California, Davis on research and exchange programmes and hosting two advanced scientific laboratories of its own.学校是南亚重要的农业研究中心，与加州大学戴维斯分校在研究与学生交换方面开展合作，并自设两个高级科学实验室。

• Its research has been carried on since at least 1925, and in 1947 the college was the only body in Pakistan conducting agricultural research.其研究至少自 1925 年起持续开展，1947 年该学院还是巴基斯坦唯一从事农业研究的机构。

• As of 2017 it was the largest of Pakistan's agricultural research universities, and it has introduced modern farming techniques and receives billions of rupees for research and development.截至 2017 年，它是巴基斯坦规模最大的农业研究型大学，其后不断引入现代农业技术，并获得数十亿卢比的研究与发展经费。

Student life

• The university has no single formal Latin motto, and its identity rests on its 1906 foundation, its agricultural mandate and its national rank in agriculture.学校没有单一正式拉丁校训，其身份标识依托 1906 年的创办年份、农业办学使命与全国农业类排名。

• Kisht-e-Nau, the university's long-running magazine, serves as the foremost platform for its young writers, artists and student contributors, and its heritage reaches back through several decades of editors.《Kisht-e-Nau》是学校历史悠久的学生杂志，为其青年作者、艺术家与学生投稿者提供首要平台，其传统可上溯数十年间的历任编辑。

• The university's FM Radio 100.4, launched on 14 August 2012 by the Institute of Agricultural Extension, broadcasts information and entertainment to farming communities.学校的 FM 100.4 电台由农业推广研究所于 2012 年 8 月 14 日开播，向农户社区播送资讯与文娱节目。

• Residential life centres on named hostels such as Jinnah Hostel, Iqbal Hall, Fatima Jinnah Hostel and Hailey Hall, which together house more than 15,000 students.住宿生活以真纳宿舍、伊克巴尔堂、法蒂玛·真纳宿舍与黑利堂等具名宿舍为中心，共容纳逾 15000 名学生。

• More than 7,000 students receive financial assistance each year, enabling them to continue their studies at the university.每年有逾 7000 名学生获得资助，得以继续在校学业。

• The university's community college offers a two-year F.Sc. (Pre-Agriculture) programme, from which students may progress into its degree programmes.学校社区学院开设两年制农科预科课程，学生可由此升读其学位课程。

• Student life is rooted in Faisalabad, an industrial city of the Punjab whose textile mills and agricultural hinterland shape the campus's practical outlook.学生生活扎根于费萨拉巴德这座旁遮普工业城市，其纺织工厂与农业腹地塑造了校园务实的气质。

• Co-curricular life is organised through student clubs, sports and the university's laboratory schools, which combine public education with teacher training.课外生活通过学生社团、体育活动与学校实验学校组织，后者把公共教育与师资培训相结合。

• Researchers at the university have developed local soybean varieties suited to Pakistan's variable climate, work highlighted as a contribution to the country's food security.学校的科研人员培育出适应巴基斯坦多变气候的本地大豆品种，此项工作被誉为对国家粮食安全的贡献。

Notable people

• Iqrar Ahmad Khan, an agricultural scientist and professor of horticulture, served as Vice-Chancellor of the university for fourteen years until his retirement in October 2024, steering its research expansion.农业科学家、园艺学教授伊克拉尔·艾哈迈德·汗任该校校长十四年，直至 2024 年 10 月退休，其间推动学校科研的扩展。

• Tariq Aziz, a Pakistan international field hockey player, is counted among the university's former students.巴基斯坦国家曲棍球队球员塔里克·阿齐兹被列入该校旧日学生名录。

• Chaudhry Ghulam Rasool, an educationist and Olympic field hockey player, studied at the institution before turning to teaching.教育家、奥运会曲棍球选手乔杜里·古拉姆·拉苏尔在该校求学，其后投身教育。

• Syed Hussain Jahania Gardezi, a politician and Provincial Minister of Punjab for Agriculture, is a graduate of the university.政治家、旁遮普省农业部长赛义德·侯赛因·贾哈尼亚·加尔德齐是该校毕业生。

• Sajjad Haider Gujjar, a politician and member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, studied agriculture at Faisalabad.政治家、旁遮普省议会议员萨贾德·海德尔·古贾尔在费萨拉巴德攻读农业。

• Sajjad Haider Nadeem, another member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, is listed among the institution's alumni.同为旁遮普省议会议员的萨贾德·海德尔·纳迪姆，被列入该校校友名录。

• Amir Ali Majid, a judge, legal scholar and author, is counted among the university's former students.法官、法学家与作家阿米尔·阿里·马吉德被列入该校旧日学生名录。

• Mian Nadeem Riaz, holder of a professorship in Food Diversity and director of the Extrusion Technology Program at Texas A&M, is an alumnus.德克萨斯 A&M 大学食品多样性讲席教授、挤压技术项目主任米安·纳迪姆·里亚兹是该校校友。

• Abid Qaiyum Suleri, a social policy analyst and development practitioner, graduated from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.社会政策分析家与发展实践者阿比德·卡尤姆·苏莱里毕业于费萨拉巴德农业大学。

• Mohammad Hameed Shahid, a short story writer, novelist and literary critic, is among its alumni.短篇小说家、小说家与文学批评家穆罕默德·哈米德·沙希德是其校友。

• Thomas Brownlie, principal of the college from 1923 to 1931, is among the founding generation of the institution's teaching leadership.1923 至 1931 年任学院院长的托马斯·布朗利，属于该校教学领导层的创办一代。

• Sir Louis Dane, lieutenant-governor of the Punjab, laid the foundation stone of the college in 1906 and stands among its founding figures.旁遮普副总督路易斯·戴恩爵士于 1906 年为学院奠基，位列其创办人物之一。

• The Vice-Chancellor Dr. Zulfiqar Ali, who took office in 2024, has stressed food security, rural development and a knowledge-based economy during his tenure.2024 年就任的校长祖尔菲卡尔·阿里博士在任内强调粮食安全、农村发展与知识经济。