Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

Vision

Vision of the proposed IDP project is to upgrade student and faculty as well as infrastructure to translate CCS HAU to be a leading agricultural university in market driven sustainable agriculture

Mission

To develop a self sustaining and quality enhancing system in place to educate and train students with a capacity to effectively contribute to the services of the society to resolve complex issues in the domain of agriculture and allied sector. Establish and maintain a national centre of excellence in the pursuit to develop students as next generation of professionals to contribute agribusiness development, environmentally sound, economically feasible, and socially acceptable technologies.

Admission are open to doctoral, postdoctoral, and undergraduate programmes at the university. CCSHAU admission 2024 for the BTech programme is done based on JEE Main performance. Scores from the CAT and GMAT are accepted by the university for admission to the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) curriculum. Candidates seeking admission to the B.Sc. (Hons) Agricultural, B.Sc. Community Science, and B.Sc. (Hons) Agricultural Integrated programmes at CCSHAU Hisar must have a passing score on the university's Agriculture Aptitude Test (AAT). Students must take the university's Common Entrance Test (CET) in order to join in M.Sc. or Ph.D. studies. Candidates who meet the requirements can visit the CCSHAU admissions page to submit an application.

For Master Programme: There are following categories of stipends for Mater's degree programmes :- 

(a)   A student enrolled for Master's programme (except for MBA, M.Sc.- FST, MBB & Bio-informatics) possessing an OGPA of 7.0/10.00 at the time of admission for 1^st semester and thereafter  maintains/acquires OGPA of 7.5/10.00 shall be awarded merit stipend of the value of Rs. 6000 per month provided he/she is not in receipt any duty pay/monetary aid from any source except sports awards.

(b)   Stipend of the value of Rs. 3000 per head per month for non-inservice students (except MBA, M.Sc. -FST, MBB and Bioinformatics) who are not in receipt of merit stipend or any other monetary aid/duty pay from the University/or other Govt. or non-Govt. agency.

(c)   Merit stipend of Rs. 6000 per month and Stipend of Rs. 3000 per month to 10% of students enrolled for M.Sc. -FST, MBB and Bioinformatics subject to fulfilling the OGPA requirements .

(d)  Merit stipend of Rs. 1000 per month to 10% of students enrolled for MBA subject to fulfilling the OGPA requirements.

For Ph.D. programme: There are  following categories of stipends for Doctoral degree programmes : -

(a)  Merit stipend of the amount of Rs. 10000 per month for such non-inservice students who possess at the time of admission or acquire and maintain thereafter a minimum OGPA 3.5/4.00 or 7.5 under 10 point scale. 

(b)   Stipend of  value of Rs. 5000 per head per month to non-inservice student (except MBB) who are not in receipt of any fellowship or merit stipend or monetary aid/duty pay from this University or other Govt. or non Govt. agencies.           

The merit stipends /stipend is given for two and three academic years from the date of admission to Mater's and Ph.D. program, respectively subject to fulfillment of certain conditions. 

A special provision for PG students belonging to SC category has been made in which financial help is provided for attending Seminar/Conferences to upgrade them for future thrust areas and new research achievements in different fields. 

OTHER FELLOWSHIP

The students are also competing for JRF/SRF offered by the ICAR, the CSIR and the UGC. The amount of these fellowship ranges from Rs.8640 P.M. (JRF) for M.Sc. to Rs.15, 000 P.M. (SRF) for Ph.D. students from the ICAR; Rs. 15,000 P.M. (JRF for 2 years) to Rs.17, 500 P.M. (SRF for 3 year) for Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship (only for SC students) from the UGC. Haryana State Council of Science & Technology, Govt. of Haryana, also offers JRF (Rs.25, 000 P.M.) for Ph.D. students. 

GOLD MEDALS/AWARDS

Gold Medals and other awards are conferred annually at the time of Convocation of the University to the students who secure highest overall grade point average/marks and fulfill the general rules for the award of Gold Medals/Awards.