The Kharkiv National Agrarian University named after V.V.Dokuchayev is a former state-sponsored higher education institution of IV level of accreditation subordinated to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Located in the village of Dokuchayivske (the suburb of Kharkiv city), Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, in 2021 joined the (Kharkiv, since 2021) as its constituent part.
The roots of the university began in the Agricultural Institute, founded on 5 October 1816 in Marymont (the suburb of Warsaw, Poland) by the Decree of emperor Alexander ÃÂ. and has common origins with the Warsaw University of Life Sciences.The Agricultural Institute was renamed into the Marymont Institute of Agriculture and Forestry after joining to it the Warsaw Forest School in 1840. In 1862 the institute was relocated to the Pulawy in the Lublin province, where it was named the . The institute was in Pulawy before the World War I. In 1914, it was evacuated to Kharkiv
In 1921, the institute was rebuilt under the new name of Kharkiv Agricultural Institute.
The institute was evacuated to the city of Kattakurgan of the Uzbek SSR during World War II. In October 1944, it was returned to Kharkiv. The Institute in March 1946 received the name of soil scientist of V.V. Dokuchayev on the 360th anniversary of his birth.
In 1991, the institute was transformed into the Kharkiv State Agrarian University named after V.V. Dokuchayev. National status to the university was granted in March 2002.
The university campus is situated outside the city of Kharkiv (2 km from the city boundaries and 25 km from downtown). The university consists of six buildings incorporated between themselves. Scientific and educational base: library (more than 600 thousand copies of scientific and educational literature); experimental farm (2 thousand ha); experimental field (70 ha); educational and experimental forestry farm (8 thousand ha).
Dendrology park was created on the initiative of the academic staff of the Department of Agroforestry and Forestry. The first trees were planted as the main alley "Scientists Alley" in the spring of 1972.
The university's dendrology park is 23,2 ha parkland area near main building. As well as providing gardens and exotic plants with more than 900 species of shrubs and plants, the park contains an experimental area for investigating evolutionary processes. It is open to the public during daylight hours.
An extensive geography of plants was imported from Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China, the Far East, Japan and North America. Among the plants in the dendrology park, there are such rare species as the Curly birch (Betula pendula var. carelica), Ginkgo (Ginkgo bilà Âba), Betula humilis, Taxus baccata and Pinus strobus, listed in the Red Book of Ukraine.
There are six faculties with more than 40 first and second level of full-time and part-time degree courses. The university staff comprises 294 research and academic staff, of whom 34 are professors and 71 - PhDs. It has 386 additional employees in administrative functions.
There are five-cycle degree levels: