Harper Adams University is a specialist land-based university near Newport, Shropshire, England. It opened as Harper Adams College in 1901, after Thomas Harper Adams bequeathed his estate for teaching practical and theoretical agriculture. Its facts page lists 5,364 total students and 494 hectares of farm land.
Its academic departments include Agriculture and Environment; Animal Health, Behaviour and Welfare; Engineering; Harper Adams Business School; Harper Food Innovation; and the Harper & Keele Veterinary School. Research centres include the Centre for Crop and Environmental Science, the Animal Science Research Centre, the Centre for Evidence-Based Agriculture, the Centre for Agricultural Data Science and the Harper Institute of Technology, whose Agri-Tech Research Centre works on precision farming, automation and robotics. The Future Farm, a commercial mixed farm of around 500 hectares with dairy, beef, sheep and pig enterprises, is used for teaching, research and demonstration. The university is a founding partner of the School of Sustainable Food and Farming with Morrisons, the NFU and McDonald’s.
