Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCS HAU), Hisar, is a state agricultural university established on 2 February 1970 by Parliament Act No. 16 of 1970, on the bifurcation of the erstwhile Punjab Agricultural University. It holds ICAR-NAEAB 'A+' accreditation, awarded in 2024, and ranked 10th nationally in NIRF's 2025 Agriculture and Allied Sectors category. The university runs nine constituent colleges from its 2,922-hectare Hisar campus, covering agriculture, agricultural engineering, biotechnology, fisheries, community science, and business management, but not veterinary science, which moved to a separate university in 2010.
CCS HAU was founded to serve Haryana's agricultural economy following the state's creation in 1966, initially as Haryana Agricultural University before its 1991 renaming in honour of the former Prime Minister and farmer-leader Chaudhary Charan Singh. The university's own account of its impact is specific: Haryana's food-grain production rose from 4.8 million tonnes in 1970-71 to 18.4 million tonnes in 2019-20, a period during which the university released well over 300 crop varieties and hybrids.
The university today runs nine constituent colleges: College of Agriculture, three additional agriculture colleges at Kaul, Bawal and the newly established Kishanpura, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Indira Chakravarty College of Community Science, College of Biotechnology, and College of Fisheries Science, alongside a Gurugram-based Institute of Business Management and Agripreneurship still under construction. It holds no veterinary programme. That faculty was carved out to form LUVAS in 2010, and any listing that still shows a veterinary degree at CCS HAU is out of date.
NIRF 2025: rank 10 nationally in Agriculture and Allied Sectors, the highest of any general state agricultural university outside the ICAR institutes and older Punjab/UP universities
Over 300 crop varieties and hybrids released since 1970; ₹50.58 crore in sponsored research from 33 funding agencies in 2023-24 alone
Farmer advisories reach over 500,000 farmers by SMS, backed by seven university-run community radio stations and three toll-free farmer helplines
No tuition fee for any woman student in UG programmes, and none for persons with disabilities irrespective of gender
Joint winner, Best Institution (Outside-Campus category), 6th National Water Awards 2024, verified in the Ministry of Jal Shakti's own winners list
A 2+4 six-year B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture programme admits students directly after Class 10, with its own dedicated Agriculture Aptitude Test
| Framework | Category | Year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIRF | Agriculture | 2025 | #10 |
The university operates 19 hostels across its campuses: 14 at Hisar (5 for men, 8 for women, 1 for married postgraduate students), 2 at Kaul, and 3 at Bawal. The Nehru Library holds over 636,000 volumes with access to more than 13,000 e-journals, includes a dedicated night reading hall open until midnight, and runs a book bank that lends full sets of core textbooks for a semester at nominal charge, a facility the university states is not replicated at comparable institutions.
Sporting infrastructure includes an international-standard synthetic athletics track, indoor badminton and squash courts, and two floodlit synthetic tennis courts. The university maintains an international exchange programme with over 25 partner institutions, with current international students drawn from Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and several African countries, among others.
The university reported 539 individual faculty records in its NIRF 2025 disclosure. Research income in FY 2023-24 totalled ₹50.58 crore in sponsored projects across 33 funding agencies, plus ₹4.07 crore in consultancy work for 36 client organisations; the university was awarded 2 patents and published a further 6 in calendar year 2023. It graduated 130 Ph.D. scholars that year, with roughly 700 full-time Ph.D. scholars on roll at any time. CCS HAU documents 265 released crop varieties and hybrids crop-by-crop in its own published compendium, updated to "over 317" in its current prospectus, credited in the university's own account with underpinning Haryana's rise in food-grain output from 4.8 to 18.4 million tonnes between 1970-71 and 2019-20.
2 courses offered. Fees in INR lakhs.
| Course | Specialization | Duration | Total seats | Total fee | Avg package |
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| B.Tech (Bachelor of Technology) | — | — | — | — | — |
| B.Tech (Bachelor of Technology) | Agricultural Engineering | — | 41 | — | — |
Campus size, faculty strength, hostel facilities, and academic infrastructure.
