Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) is in Ludhiana, Punjab. According to its History page, it traces its academic origin to the Punjab Agriculture College and Research Institute at Lyallpur, founded in 1906, which was re-established at Amritsar after Partition, moved to Ludhiana in 1949 and to its present site in 1957. It received university status in 1962 and was formally inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru on 8 July 1963.
The university has six constituent colleges, among them the College of Agriculture, the College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, the College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, the College of Community Science, the College of Horticulture and Forestry and a College of Agriculture at Ballowal Saunkhri. Its NIRF 2026 data submission reports 3,710 students in degree programmes in 2024-25, plus 392 full-time PhD students.