SUA is a top educational and scientific institution in agriculture and neighboring areas and has attained the position of one of Slovakia’s leading universities in the period since it was founded in 1952. The University is consistently rated in the top group for the high quality of its teaching and research in the Slovak Republic. It cultivates close and productive links with its local and regional community and it continues to expand its work at an international level in both teaching and scientific research. SUA offers university education in the following levels of degree programmes: Bachelor, Master, Doctoral (PhD) and consists of 6 Faculties.
SUA actively participates in several initiatives related to land protection. Faculties of SUA solve problems of land protection from different aspects: agricultural, legislative, economic and sociological. The main initiatives of SUA are as follows: national and international projects, organization of international conferences, seminars, workshops, roundtables and other events (for experts, researchers, university teachers, stakeholders and PhD students), and Bc., MSc and PhD thesis on land protection issues which are solved by students of all SUA faculties.