History - دانشکده کشاورزی
About the Faculty
Hamadan Higher Agricultural School
The first higher agricultural education center in Hamadan was established in March 1966 by the late Dr. Ali Eqbali under the title "Higher Agricultural School" with the approval of the Central Council of Universities and in 1969 it was approved by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Until 1969, the Higher Agricultural School only had a two-year "Associate of Agriculture" course. In 1969, with the approval of the Ministry of Science, a bachelor's degree course was established in this center in two fields: "Cooperation and Rural Affairs" and "Agricultural Promotion" and since then it has been renamed from "Higher Agricultural School" to "Higher Agricultural School". Dr. Mansour Gholami, Dr. Iraj Malek Mohammadi, Dr. Seyed Mahmoud Hosseini, Dr. Yousef Hejazi, Dr. Abdolhamid Papzan and Dr. Mohammad Reza Hamzeh are among the first graduates of this course.
The first higher agricultural education center in Hamadan was established in March 1966 by the late Dr. Ali Eqbali under the title "Higher Agricultural School" with the approval of the Central Council of Universities and in 1969 it was approved by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Until 1969, the Higher Agricultural School only had a two-year "Associate of Agriculture" course. In 1969, with the approval of the Ministry of Science, a bachelor's degree course was established in this center in two fields: "Cooperation and Rural Affairs" and "Agricultural Promotion" and since then it has been renamed from "Higher Agricultural School" to "Higher Agricultural School". Dr. Mansour Gholami, Dr. Iraj Malek Mohammadi, Dr. Seyed Mahmoud Hosseini, Dr. Yousef Hejazi, Dr. Abdolhamid Papzan and Dr. Mohammad Reza Hamzeh are among the first graduates of this course.
Faculty of Agriculture
After the issuance of the license to establish Bu-Ali Sina University in 1973 and its approval in 1974, the Hamadan Faculty of Agriculture officially began its activities in the form of the "Agricultural Development Complex" as one of the four main branches of Bu-Ali Sina University, in the former location of the Hamadan Tannery Factory. The first professors of Bu-Ali Sina University were sent to France to study under the Iranian government scholarship based on the joint treaty between Iran and France, and Dr. Darvish was elected as the first dean of the Faculty of Agriculture.
In 1979, the "Higher School of Agriculture" was officially merged into "Bu-Ali Sina University". After the Cultural Revolution and with the reopening of universities in 1983, the Faculty of Agriculture resumed its activities by establishing two educational departments: "Agriculture" and "Animal Husbandry". In 1984 and 1985, it began accepting students in the fields of "Agricultural Sciences" and "Animal Husbandry" at the associate level, respectively. In 1998, the first master's degree student was accepted in the Animal Sciences Department and in 2006, the first doctoral student was accepted in the Soil Science Department. In 2009, the new Faculty of Agriculture was opened with an area of 14,000 square meters. Scientific and research activities in this faculty are carried out in two old and new buildings, greenhouses, and Dastjerd and Abbasabad farms.
Currently (2019), the Faculty of Agriculture has 88 faculty members (12 professors, 31 associate professors, and 45 assistant professors) in 9 educational departments, 68 laboratories and workshops, educational and research greenhouses, a natural history museum, a water research institute, a phytochemistry research institute, and two educational-research-production farms in Abbas Abad and Dastjerd. Currently, about 1,640 students are studying at various levels of education (804 undergraduate students, 583 master's students, and 253 doctoral students). The Faculty of Agriculture has 36 employees who work as educational, research, administrative, and service experts.