Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie), located in Kraków, Poland, became a university by decree of the Council of Ministers as of 28 September 1972.

As early as 1776 the university's patron Hugo Kołłątaj, then a member of the National Education Commission, postulated creating a Department of Agriculture as part of the reformed Cracow Academy.

Over 80 years later, a three-year Agricultural Study was established at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in 1890, at the Collegium Iuridicum.

The Second World War caused considerable losses to the university, most seriously among the Faculty of Agriculture staff (see: Operation Sonderaktion Krakau).

In spite of considerable difficulties posed by the German occupation secret courses in agronomy were conducted, headed by a temporary Dean Anatol Listowski.

Faculties (since 1997) Over 8,000 students pursue vocational, undergraduate and graduate programmes (both internal and external) at the Agricultural University.