Practical training is an integral part of study programmes at all SAU faculties. Like other subjects, it is awarded by a certain number of credits, depending on its character and duration. The venues and forms of practice are various (individual, group). All SAU faculties use opportunities provided by the University Experimental Farm, s.r.o. (UEF) for practical training. The practice is supervised by a teacher as well as by a specialized UEF employee. Some students pass their practice in the SAU Botanic Garden. Moreover, faculties have agreements on student vocational practice with successful agricultural enterprises, such as the Združenie agropodnikateľov Dvory nad Žitavou, PPD Prašice, PP Nová Bodva, and PD Šarišan Svinia. Good practice conditions for the Faculty of Engineering students have been created by the PALL-INALFA, a.s. Students interested in doing their vocational practice abroad may choose Germany, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Norway, Netherlands, and the USA.

Since 1990 SUA has been involved in various international educational and research programmes within and outside of Europe. Apart from programmes SUA cooperates via bilateral and multilateral agreements with partner institutions also in North and South America, Australia, Russia and China.

Among most frequently carried out European programmes belong the following ones: SOCRATES (more than 60 European Union universities), ERASMUS MUNDUS,TEMPUS, DAAD, PHARE, LEONARDO DA VINCI and JEAN MONNET. Study and research activities are successfully developed also via Central European Exchange Programme (CEEPUS) and Action Austria-Slovakia.

As to the participation in the field of research activities SUA plays an active role in 5th and 6th Framework programme, COST, INCO-COPERNICUS.

Collaboration with North and South America is represented by long-year partnership with Universities like Cornell, Delaware, Iowa state university, West Virginia university, Kansas University, Minnesota University, Purdue,A&M Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee University. SUA has carried out student exchanges also with our partner in Canada - Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro. Cooperation with Fulbright Commission also strenghtens and deepens prosperous partnerships.