The Slovak University of Agriculture (SUA) in Nitra is the only educational institution in Slovakia whose mission is to train university graduates for all resorts of agriculture and food industry. Extensive possibilities to acquire knowledge in the area of biological, economical, technical and social sciences create good conditions for the graduates to find jobs also in other resorts of economy.

During recent years all SUA faculties have undergone deep transformation changes resulting in the formation of new educational systems, compatible with other universities, in the development of interdisciplinary programmes as well as cross-disciplinary and part-time study at other faculties in Slovakia and abroad. As the first university in Slovakia, the SUA introduced the ECTS system at all its faculties during the academic year 2001/02.

The SUA consists of the following 6 faculties:
Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources,
Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences,
Faculty of Economics and Management,
Faculty of European Studies and Regional Development,
Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering,
Faculty of Agricultural Engineering.