Poltava State Agriculture Academy

In September-October 1920 at the faculty, where 21 teachers were working, 49 students started their studies. There were the following sections: stock-breeding, plant production, horticulture with vegetable growing. The date of establishing of that faculty is regarded as a date of the foundation of the high agricultural institution in Poltava.

Today students’ training is going on according to the degree system – bachelor, specialist, master – corresponding to the licenses of the specialities:
- 8.050106 "Accounting and Auditing",
- 8.050201 "Management of Organizations",
- 8.130102 "Agronomy",
- 8.130201 "Zoo-engineering",
- 8.130501 "Veterinary Medicine",
- 7.091902 "Mechanization of Agriculture",
- 6.050100 "Finances" with the general licensed range of 450 persons.

Re-training and advanced studies of specialists is going on in correspondence with the basic lines of training with the licensed volume of 800 persons, annually 450-500 persons pass through advanced studies, and 120-150 leaders and specialists of agricultural enterprises have their retraining courses.

Nowadays there are 9 faculties at the academy:
- "Accounting and Auditing",
- "Management",
- "Mechanization of Agriculture",
- "Agronomical Faculty",
- "Zoo-engineering",
- "Veterinary Medicine",
- "Part-time Study",
- "Post-graduate Education",
- "Foreign Students Training".
There are also two technical schools, lyceum, problem-scientific-research laboratories, two training-research farms and some other sub-units.

Academy scientists are carrying on research work in different areas of agricultural production: they work out genetic and biological basis of selection of highly productive sorts of winter wheat; create highly productive factory types and specialized lines of agricultural animals on the basis of technological, selective and genetic and biochemical parametres; economical problems of resource and energy usage in agrarian manufacturing complex, biological and agroecological system of husbandry.

The educational institution has wide international links with universities, high agricultural schools and farms of Germany, Austria, France, Great Britain and Sweden.