Spread out on a 550-hectare working farm, Harper Adams University was established in 1901 and provides higher education in agricultural and rural sector subjects to students of more than 30 nationalities through 50 undergraduate, postgraduate and foundation programmes. Undergraduate courses focus on six main areas which are Mechanical Engineering, Land, Property and Environmental Management, Agriculture, Business and Agri-Food Management and Marketing, Food Science, Technology and Innovation and Animal health, welfare and behavior sciences. Harper Adams also has a partnership with Keele University and together runs a veterinary school that comprises of a clinical skills center, a veterinary hospital and campus-based Veterinary School hub facilities. The researches conducted at the university are mainly on livestock carbon footprint reduction, genetic approaches to improving food quality, bioenergy and renewable sources, management of soil and water, agricultural technology, crop disease resistance, agricultural landscape biodiversity and animal welfare at various research facilities of the campus like the Poultry Research Unit, the Jean Jackson Entomology Building, the Dairy Crest Innovation Centre and the Regional Food Academy.