Agricultural College and Research Institute, Coimbatore

TNAU publishes programme and admission information through its official university admission portal and notices. Applicants should use the current session’s prospectus for programme-specific eligibility and deadlines.

The university history records agricultural education at Coimbatore after relocation from Chennai in 1906, postgraduate-centre recognition in 1958, and its central role before TNAU was established in 1971.

Agricultural College and Research Institute (AC&RI), Coimbatore is a core agricultural teaching and research campus of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. The university’s institutional history traces agricultural education at Coimbatore to the relocation of the earlier agricultural school in 1906; the Coimbatore college was the principal agricultural education institute for South India until 1946 and became a postgraduate centre in 1958. TNAU’s programme directory lists agriculture and several technology-oriented undergraduate programmes at this campus, including biotechnology and bioinformatics. Its university role combines agricultural education with research and extension activities serving farming and allied sectors.