Agricultural University of Georgia was established in 1929 and has been from that time onward the primary university in Georgia for higher education in agriculture and related fields. After a period of decline following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the university was privatized in 2011 and work began immediately to make it a modern, high-quality research university. Since then, millions of dollars have been spent renovating the educational and research infrastructure while the new management recruits high-quality Georgian and foreign scientists and professors, revises curriculums and syllabuses in accordance with the best models from Europe and America, and facilitates and promotes research activities in the agricultural sector.

The university’s commitment to excellence and its rapid progress were soon widely recognized in Georgia. The performance of its entering freshman class on the unified national exams in the fall of 2012 placed the university in sixth place out of a total of almost 60 universities in the country. Just two years earlier, the university had been ranked in the bottom half.