0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS Students Counseling and Placement Services The graduate degree programs are offered in all five faculties, ITC Students counseling and placement center is responsible for & IFST. The Faculty of Agricultural Engineering offers a composite guiding and counseling the students for getting admission in degree of B.E. (Agriculture). Similarly a composite professional degree programs of their choice depending upon the availability of degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) is offered by the seats and other related factors. The center is also responsible to Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences. The Faculty fetch the jobs for the university graduates in various public and of Crop Production offers B.Sc. (Agri.) Hons degree in the subject private organizations. In this context, the centre will maintain the areas of Soil Science, Agronomy, Crop Physiology, Plant Breeding record of addresses / contact numbers of all passing out graduates & Genetics, Horticulture, and Biotechnology. Whereas, B.Sc. to keep them well informed of their proper placement in various (Hons) four year degree programs is offered by Institute of Food jobs commensurate with their qualifications. It will also monitor the Sciences & Technology. The Faculty of Crop Protection offers market demand of our graduates and will guide them to start their B.Sc. (Agri.) Hons degree in Entomology, Plant Pathology, and career in the disciplines where they can seek suitable jobs Plant Protection. The degree of B.Sc. (Agri.) Hons in Agricultural immediately after their graduation. It will also be responsible for Economics, Rural Sociology, Applied Statistics, and Agricultural solving day to day problems of the university students. Education & Extension, is offered by Faculty of Agricultural Social Directorate of Students Affairs Sciences. The Information Technology Centre offers a four year BSIT (Hons) degree in Information Technology, besides diplomas This directorate facilitates the local and foreign students in getting and trainings in various Information Technology disciplines. admission to this university, accommodation, local problems, visa Academic Calendar facilities etc. Each academic year shall start from January and comprises of two Bank terms (Spring and Fall) in all the five faculties of the University, the Information Technology Centre (ITC), the Institute of Food A full-fledged branch of Habib Bank Limited is situated adjacent to Sciences & Technology (IFST). The duration of each term is 20 administration block which provides all sorts of banking facilities to weeks distributed as one week for registration, 14 weeks of actual the staff members and students. teaching, two weeks for examination preparation, while remaining 3 weeks are meant for conduct of term examinations. An optional, Post and Telegraph Services 10-12 weeks summer term (as part of Academic Year) shall be University has a well staffed post office on the campus that offered to students to cover failing and or deficiency courses or to provides all the necessary facilities including telegraph service. improve poor grades. Eligibility Criteria for Admission to Graduate Degree Programs Computing, Internet and Intranet Facilities To be eligible for admission to various graduate degree programs, Information Technology Centre (ITC) was established in 2002 to candidates must hold a minimum qualification of Intermediate impart degree programs, PG Diploma, short term diploma and Science (Pre-Medical, Pre-Engineering, Pre-Computer) or short courses of varying duration to the students of this university equivalent examination with grade "C" or above (at least 50% in particular and to the youth of the province of Sindh in general. marks) are eligible in different faculties depending upon the More than 100 latest computers are available along with all requirement of each faculty, ITC & IFST as specified in each ones necessary peripherals. The faculty and students particularly the profile. postgraduate students are provided the internet and intranet facility 17 for literature search. The facility for data analysis is also provided to Financial Aid the postgraduate students and the faculty. The Higher Education The deserving students are awarded scholarships, freeships or Commission (HEC) has provided the internet connectivity under cash grants by the university. Some scholarships are also allocated Pakistan Educational and Research Network (PERN). The by the Directorates of Education. The District Education Boards of university has its own website. The address is given at the end of Sindh also provide some scholarships every year for meritorious this prospectus, where in all the information regarding the students of their districts. The Government of Sindh also grants university is displayed. The e-mail facility is also available for the scholarships to the deserving students on poverty cum merit basis. students and the faculty Financial assistance is also provided from Bait-ul-Mal. Under the mega project, "Computerization and Networking The scholarships and freeships, etc. are awarded for one academic Enhancement Project of SAU" all the faculties, departments, year. The continuation of the financial aid, however, is subject to a library, administration, Directorate of Advanced Studies and student's satisfactory performance each year. Scholarships to the Research (DASR) have been interconnected together through students of the province of Balochistan, KPK and Gilgit Baltistan intranet and further integrated with the existing internet facility at are awarded by their respective governments through their the ITC. More than 150 PCs are procured for the faculties and Directorates of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry. Banks and other departments to establish computer labs in each faculty, library, financial institutions also grant loans to the meritorious students on DASR, Quality Enhancement Directorate and administration block very soft terms of payment. to provide internet access to all of them at their door step for the postgraduates and researchers. In addition to the above provisions, scholarships are also granted Campus Security on poverty basis under the HEC-USAID and HEC-JAICA need- based scholarships program. These scholarships cover almost In order to address security concerns of the staff and students entire expenditure of student including tuition fees, hostel fees, residing on-campus, a security system operates round the clock transportation, books and other expenses. under the supervision of highly skilled manpower under the supervision of Director Campus to provide secured environment at Job Opportunities for the Graduates of the University the campus. The prime motive behind the establishment of the University is to University Publications promote rapid transfer of technology to the farming community through a continued output of graduates and postgraduates. The Sindh Agriculture University publishes biannually Pakistan Journal graduates disseminate the modern technical know-how to the of Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering and Veterinary Sciences farmers to boost up agricultural productivity. (PJAAEVS), a yearly Sarang Student Magazine, SAUNI News The main job opportunities are as under: Agricultural graduates Letter and Seerat-ul-Nabi Islamic Magazine for spiritual inspirations and postgraduates may be taken up to work as farm managers of students. Research papers, popular articles and significant in Agricultural Estates. Work as specialists in various disciplines of writings of the faculty and students are published in these Agriculture and allied sciences in public and private sector periodicals. organizations, autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies viz, Zarai Tarqiati Bank (ZTBP) of Pakistan, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC), Pakistan Council for Research on Water Resources (PCRWR), WAPDA, Fruit Preservation and Grading Industries, Veterinary Pharmaceuticals, Animal Feed 18 Industries, etc. Their services can also be utilized in provincial and BSIT (Hons.) graduates of ITC have adequate opportunities to federal departments of Agricultural Extension, Research, work in software development, teaching, education and training, Teaching, Fisheries, Forestry, Cooperatives, Animal offices, banks and other financial organizations, research Husbandry Extension Services, Veterinary Research Institutes, organizations, management, health care, commerce and industry, Poultry Research Institutes, Agricultural Engineering, Plant military, police, railway, air traffic, communication and transport Protection, Plant and Animal Quarantine, Pakistan Central Cotton services, tele-communication corporations, networking and Committee, Public Parks and Gardens, Agricultural Tools and database management. Graduates of Information Technology can Machines, Seed Corporations, EPA, SCARP, BOM, Drainage join as software engineer, programmer, lecturer, computer Research Centers, PLAC, Sindh Sugar Corporation, Pakistan engineer, system analyst, system administrator, network Atomic Energy Commission, and other departments. administrator, network engineer, network manager, scientific They may be taken up as agriculture teachers/subject specialists to officer, research officer, administrative officer, database teach agriculture and agro-technical courses in High Schools and administrator. other vocational institutes of education departments. Catering The job-oriented graduates can share the business and Any group of students not