King Michael I University of Life Sciences

The existence of USVT is related to the establishment of the Faculty of Agronomy, within the Polytechnic Institute of Timișoara, by Law no. 617 promulgated by King Michael I on 30 July 1945. In 1948, the Faculty of Agronomy was transformed into an Agronomic Institute. In the same year, the Institute of Zootechnics and Veterinary Medicine was established in Arad, with two faculties: Zootechnics and Veterinary Medicine. In 1991, based on the Order of the Minister of Education no. 4894, the Agronomic Institute becomes the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences. In 1995, by Government Decision no. 568, the name of the university becomes the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, and in 2013, by Government Decision no. 493, the institution is named after King Michael I of Romania, the symbolic founder of the university. == Faculties ==

The university campus is located at 119 Arad Way, at the exit to Arad. It was built between 1972 and 1982. USVT offers its students a number of 1,516 places in five student dormitories. The internship of the university students takes place at the didactic station, Farm 1 – Cioreni, Farm 2 – Km 6 (former protocol base of the Romanian Communist Party), Farm 3 – Lugoj, Farm 9 – Green Forest, in the veterinary clinics, at the Young Naturalists Station, Romanian-German Center for Training and Professional Development in the Field of Agriculture, as well as profile companies. In 2014, USVT received a certificate of excellence for "Best Campus" offered by Oxford University. == Doctores honoris causa ==

• Karl Fritz Lauer (1938–2018), phytopathologist and herbologist • Erwin Teufel (b. 1939), Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg (1991–2005) • Margareta of Romania (b. 1949), eldest daughter of King Michael I • (b. 1951), phytopathologist and entomologist • (b. 1951), Metropolitan of Banat (2014–present) == References ==