PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi

Since its inception, UAAR has experienced remarkable growth and is offering undergraduate as well as post graduate degree programs in variety of disciplines. The University includes a Faculty of Crop and Food Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, Range Management and Wildlife, Directorate of Advance Studies and Research, the University Institute of Management Sciences (UIMS), University Institute of Information Technology (UIIT) and Division of Continuing Education, Home Economics and Women Development. The University building contains an auditorium, multi-storied administrative block, a library, a museum, and four multi-stories academic blocks.

Pursuit of excellence on the University campus is a function of competent and dedicated university faculty. The University of Arid Agriculture has, therefore, made constant efforts at staff development with the result that nearly 46% of the faculty possesses Ph.D. degrees, while the others have M.Sc. (Hons) and M.Phil degrees.

Furthermore, UAAR is committed to delivering an outstanding student experience; as well as to enjoy a reputation for excellence in teaching and learning alongside research. Students actively participate in extracurricular and co-curricular life on campus which includes speech events, seminars and activities related to entrepreneurial skill development. Together with a research-informed curriculum, and extracurricular activities UAAR strive to provide a well-diversified environment to students so that they can effectively contribute towards the development of this country.

Being an Agricultural Institution, our main objective is to produce high quality Agricultural Scientists. Therefore, we are committed with the philosophy that we advance our farmer community by sharing positive and proven ideas and experiences. Along with Agricultural Sciences, the university offers degree programs at all levels in basic and Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, Management Sciences, Computer Sciences and Information Technology.

The University seeks to make a major contribution to the agricultural advancement across the country. Therefore, we are dedicated to the prosecution of research across all fields of study, believing in research culture with clear application and relevance.

With a dynamic and stimulating educational environment, our tradition is to accept challenges and to receive wisdom today, in order to achieve new things and new approaches for tomorrow. Embracing education in its widest context, we continually strive to remain at the forefront of knowledge.

We are committed to prepare our students to work, acquire skills and enhance their capabilities that equip them adequately to live in rapidly changing global environment.

The vision is to establish and enhance PMAS-Arid Agriculture University as a quality-focused higher education institution that provides excellent academic and research environment for producing researchers and scholars in the fields of Agriculture, IT, Business, Education and Veterinary Sciences.

The vision is to craft this institute a place attracting intellectuals from all over the world. For promoting our faculties to handle arid agriculture issues we are planning to have our campuses in middle-east and/or other countries facing desertification. We plan that the university should serve as a platform for connecting link for creating intercultural understanding and promoting dialogue and sharing among nations, cultures and societies by providing research based academic programs in Agriculture, IT, Business, Education and Veterinary Sciences.

Being an Agricultural University, faculty must facilitate the farmers of our country to get optimum benefits from their resources through utilization of research being carried on in the labs and practicing proposed methods in the field. Replacing the old and traditional methods with advanced modern technology from production of crops to value-added by-products at the Farm Gate is the real milestone for the university which will ultimately uplift the economy of Pakistan.

We are establishing relationships with successful universities and research organizations at national and international level through joint strategies for education, research, infrastructure and administrative developments. This will ultimately result in professional working conditions which will boost the confidence level of our students, researchers and encourage our alumni.

The mandate of the university is to produce high quality agricultural scientists and to form an organized scientific infrastructure for teaching and research for the development of dry land regions of the country, thus minimizing the income gap between rich and poor.