The Buryat State Academy of Agriculture (BSAA) founded in 1931 is a leading school of higher education dealing with training of specialists in the fields of agriculture, natural resources management and environmental sciences. The faculty encompasses 433, 241 associate professors and 59 being full professors. 

BSAA offers study programs of different levels: 37 BSc programs; 20 MSc programs and 4 specialist programs. BSAA faculty is engaged in vocational training and qualification upgrading of public administration and municipal civil servants in a wide range of agricultural and natural resources management issues to help policy makers and practitioners shape effective policy, improve the management and address the needs of rural population. The training programs are arranged by the Institute of qualification upgrading, vocational training, re-training and innovation, being the structural unit of the BSAA.
The BSAA has participated in several TEMPUS projects and has been a partner institution in TEMPUS “RUDECO” project. The project’s local group worked on developing the module “Rural tourism”. The module is introduced in the curriculum of the BSc program “Tourism”. The BSAA has initiated and participated in the follow up activities such as international conferences “Organic agriculture in the Republic of Buryatia” in summer 2014, International forum “Eco - and Agri-tourism” in July 2013.
The staff of Economics faculty has been involved in implementing the Federal target program "Sustainable development of rural territories for the years 2014-2017 and for the period till 2020".

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