About the Faculty

The Faculty of Agriculture evolved from the Swaziland Agricultural College and University Centre (SACUS), that was established in 1966. The Faculty of Agriculture is the oldest Faculty having been established in 1972, as a faculty of the then University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS).

The Faculty of Agriculture began by offering certificates and diplomas in General Agriculture, Agricultural Education and Home Economics to produce, mainly, officers for the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and the Ministry of Education. Later degree programmes in General Agriculture, Agricultural Education and Home Economics were introduced with the same output in mind. The certificate programmes were offered on demand by the Government.

In 1990, a restructured five-year programme (three-year diploma/two-year degree) was introduced after realizing that the public sector, which was the target market for its graduates was getting saturated.

In 2005/2006 academic year, departments in the Faculty of Agriculture examined their pertinent diploma/degree programmes and identified several unnecessary overlaps in courses.

The revision of such courses to remove overlaps resulted in reduction of the duration of programmes from five years to four years. Thus, four-year degree programmes were introduced at the Faculty of Agriculture in 2006/2007 academic year.

The programmes were further fine-tuned in 2009/2010 academic year to make improvements in each of the existing degree programmes.

As a result of feedback and consultation with relevant stakeholders, the programmes in the Faculty were further reviewed, with the aim of making improvements in 2019. The cohort of the recently fine turned programmes is doing Level 4 in the 2023 academic year.