SKN College of Agriculture, Jaipur

SKN College of Agriculture is a constituent college situated in Jaipur district of Rajasthan which was set up in 1947. This is one of the premier colleges accredited by the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) that provides a wide range of products in the area of agriculture.

The college has its roots in the educational institutions reaching more than seven graduation years, and for all these years, it has been a leader in the agricultural field. The campus is located at Jobner and offer a favourable learning and training ground in different fields of agriculture.

In this respect, SKN College of Agriculture has available a stunning checklist of resources that are geared towards improving the learning process of the learners. With collection of over 46000 books it serves as a nucleus of academic facility and has the facility of abstracted magazines and journals both national and international.

It also provides other facilities of the contemporary world including xerox facilities, micro documents and e-Journal. To nurture and improve the practical knowledge, the college has well ventilated laboratories, central laboratory with sophisticated instruments like HPLC, GC facility, PCR. The campus is specified with Wi-Fi, therefore the students are always connected to the internet.

Sport enthusiasts can exercise convenience in a college stadium where there are provision of cinder athletic track and facilities in badminton, table tennis, basketball, volleyball, tennis etc. It also has football, ice hockey, and cricket facilities for a more encompassing developmental orientated policy.

SKN College of Agriculture is an accredited institution and embracing diversified education courses of all levels that are associated with agricultural studies. The institution offers 20 courses which comes under three degree levels in Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate programmes. The largest is the four year full time B. Sc. Agriculture (Hons) programme for 100 students.

At postgraduate level, the college offers number of M. Sc. programmes in the various specialisation areas like Agronomy, Agricultural Economics, Biochemistry , Entomology, Horticulture , Plant breeding and genetics and many more. For the others who intend to do research, then the college has the following PhD programme in Agronomy , Agricultural Economics, Entomology , Soil Science and Agriculture Chemistry.

Course Name Total number of seats No of Specialisation B. Sc Agriculture Hons 100 1 M. Sc Agronomy - 1 M. Sc Agricultural Economics - 1 M. Sc Biochemistry - 1 M. Sc Entomology - 1 The entry into SKN College of Agriculture mostly involve Common entrance examination. For the B. Sc. Agriculture (Hons) programme the admissions are made through Joint Entrance Test ( JET ).

Likewise, for the postgraduate programmes candidate has to appear for the JET/Pre-PG examination. These entrance examinations are important so that the college would only admit potential students in the field of agricultural sciences. The college has rigorous admission policy which take into consideration, the qualification performance tests for past qualifying exams, scores in admission tests etc.

On the admission dates and procedures, prospective students are encouraged to frequently visit the college website or even the Rajasthan Agricultural University website. The institution understand it has a duty of offering quality education thereby admitting only the serious and capable candidates in its programmes.