| Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural | | | | plus a students' activity and welfare centre named as |
| University, earlier known as the Hissar agricultural | | | | the 'Giri Centre', which has badminton courts, squash |
| University, is located in Hissar, Haryana. It was named | | | | courts, a synthetic track, an Olympic-size swimming |
| after Chaudhary Charan Singh, a former Prime Minister | | | | pool, and a large indoor gymnasium. It is one of the |
| of India. Initially, it was a part of the Punjab Agricultural | | | | famousUniversities in India. |
| University, but in 1966, with the division of Punjab and | | | | Extensive hostel facilities are provided to the students |
| Haryana, the HAU became an independent institution. | | | | and faculty members. There are nearly 970 in campus |
| Since then, the university has become internationally | | | | and 242 outstation residential buildings. There are |
| known for its advances in high yielding grain and cotton | | | | shopping centres also which have grocery shops, |
| varieties. Ch. Charan Singh University is one of the | | | | banks, post office, book stores etc. with all the modern |
| biggest Agricultural Universities across the globe, and a | | | | facilities. |
| pioneer in the filed of agricultural research in India. It had | | | | There are modern laboratories available in the |
| also contributed significantly to Green Revolution and | | | | university that provide facilities like DNA sequencing, |
| White Revolution in the country. It is one of the reputed | | | | UV trans-illuminator, PCR, FT-IR, gene gun, gene pulser, |
| Universities In Haryana. | | | | electron microscope, plasma spectrometer, X-ray |
| There are seven main colleges in the main HAU | | | | diffraction, chromatography etc. Screen house, green |
| campus at Hissar, namely-College of Agriculture, | | | | house and transgenic green house are also available |
| College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, | | | | to researchers. |
| College of Basic Sciences & Humanities, Indira | | | | Admission to the most of the undergraduate |
| Chakravarty College of Home Science, College of | | | | programmes is through a common entrance test, |
| Veterinary Sciences, and Chaudhary Devi Lal Centre | | | | which includes questions from Physics, Chemistry, |
| for Food Science & Technology. In addition to this, | | | | Biology, Mathematics, Agriculture and allied subjects. |
| there are two off-campus colleges, the Colleges of | | | | The admission procedure starts in July every year, and |
| Agriculture at Kaul (near Kurukshetra) and Bawal (near | | | | seats are alloted on merit basis. 75% seats are |
| Rewari). The University campus has a library which | | | | offered to the resident students of Haryana and 25% |
| has about 3,00,000 books and 700 journals. It has a | | | | seats are filled through an all-India entrance test |
| floor area of about 1,00,000 square feet. There is also | | | | organized by the Indian Council of Agricultural |
| a state-of-art 'Indira Gandhi Auditorium' in the campus, | | | | Research. |