Sher-e-kashmir University Of Agricultural Science & Technology Of Jammu, Jammu

Two universities answer to the acronym SKUAST, and this is the Jammu one, headquartered at Chatha and placed 23rd on the 2025 agriculture table of the National Institutional Ranking Framework. Its current admission brochure prints 456 undergraduate seats across seven degrees, and 41 of those are handed to the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and the Veterinary Council of India to fill through their own national counselling before a local candidate sits the entrance test. What decides your bill here is not the tuition line, which is identical across every degree except veterinary science, but the self-financing column printed beside it.

SKUAST-Jammu was carved out of the older Srinagar university rather than founded from scratch. The brochure records that it was established on September 20, 1999, through an amendment in the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu and Kashmir Act of 1982 (vide SRO No 408 dated 20-09-1999). The separation is now complete at every point a candidate touches: a different entrance test, a different application portal, a different fee schedule and a different institute code in the national rankings.

The two are easiest to keep apart by what the rankings measure. Jammu is filed as IR-G-U-0199 and appears in exactly one 2025 table, agriculture, where it scores 54.28. Srinagar is a separate filing under a separate code and sits higher on that table and on three others; none of its numbers describes anything on this page.

Geography is the other thing worth fixing early. Teaching is split across two campuses, and the brochure describes the university as a multi- campus University with its headquarter located at Chatha, Jammu at a distance of 8 km from Jammu-Pathankot NH-44, 12 km from the Jammu Railway Station, 14 km from the General Bus Stand and 6 km from the Jammu Air Port. A veterinary or dairy student never studies at Chatha at all.

The land figures come from the same brochure, which states that the main campus at Chatha is spread over 578 acres, that the veterinary and dairy faculties at R.S. Pura have an extent of 84 acre campuses, and that the total land possession with the University (including Research Stations/ Sub-Stations and KVKs) is 1139.12 acres across nine research stations and nine farm science centres in the agro-climatic zones of the Jammu region.

Check the web address before you type it, because SKUAST-Jammu runs two of its own and warns about a third. The current brochure tells applicants that forms are accepted Online ONLY through the University website www.skuastjammu.ac.in, while a notice running on that same site states that The only authentic and official website of SKUAST-jammu is available at www.skuast.org and all official communications, notifications, and information shall be deemed valid only when published there. Both resolve and both carry university content, so treat either as genuine and neither as a substitute for the other. The notice exists because a fraudulent website falsely impersonating SKUAST-Jammu is being operated by certain unscrupulous individuals under the URL/Domain https://skuasthrd.org. Verify any admission or recruitment notice against one of the two university-run addresses before paying anything.

Seven undergraduate degrees now run, one more than in the previous cycle, and the tuition line does not distinguish between six of them. Every non-veterinary degree charges Rs 32,690 at first admission and veterinary science charges Rs 52,200. The variation students actually experience sits in the next column across.

Seat counts are the Summary of Seat Matrix of Undergraduate Degree Programmes for 2026-27, which totals 456 over intakes of 100 in veterinary science plus two supernumerary places, 145 in agriculture, 66 in horticulture, 50 in biotechnology, 38 in agricultural engineering, 30 in dairy technology and 25 in the new life sciences degree, and the qualifying subject combinations are the eligibility table beside it. Fee columns are the university's prescribed fee for UG and PG programmes at the time of admission, which sets the self-financing surcharge at Rs 29,700 or Rs 50,000 a semester for agriculture and horticulture, Rs 55,000 for the three B.Tech. degrees and Rs 20,000 or Rs 30,000 for life sciences. One caution on the horticulture row: the brochure's own per-programme breakup for that degree adds up to 57+3*=60 while its summary matrix carries 66, a six-seat disagreement inside one document, so treat the horticulture line as approximate until the counselling seat matrix is published.

Read the last column carefully, because it is the whole story of what a SKUAST-Jammu degree costs. A veterinary seat taken on merit is billed at Rs 52,200; the same seat taken as an NRI, OCI or all-India self-financing candidate carries Rs 5,00,000 added to that every year, and a local domicile self-financing seat or a ward of a serving university employee carries Rs 3,00,000. Nothing else in the schedule is close. On the four-year degrees the surcharge is levied per semester and stays in a narrower band, from Rs 20,000 for a domicile self-financing seat in life sciences to Rs 55,000 for the three B.Tech. programmes.

What follows the first payment is smaller and predictable. The brochure sets the recurring academic charge at Rs 10,728 a semester for undergraduate programmes other than B.V.Sc. & A.H. and Rs 15,540 a semester for postgraduate programmes, hostel excluded. Veterinary science is billed by the year instead, at Rs 45,000 for the second, third and fifth years and Rs 67,503 for the fourth; every line in that fourth-year column, from tuition to water charges, is exactly one and a half times its second-year value, so budget the veterinary fourth year as three semesters rather than two. Medical and accidental insurance adds Rs 1050 a year at every level, and the brochure marks that figure tentative.

Master's entry costs Rs 30,526 at admission on an open merit or reserved seat, with Rs 55,000 a semester on top for self-financing, and that applies equally to the biotechnology, microbiology and agri-business management programmes, which are offered only in self-finance mode.

Where you hold domicile decides which door exists for you, and the answer changed for the 2026-27 cycle. The brochure is explicit that candidates having a Domicile certificate of Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh are eligible for seeking admission to all the undergraduate and Post-graduate programmes, while candidates hailing from states/ UTs other than Jammu and Kashmir & Ladakh can only seek admission under Non-Resident Indian (NRI)/OCI quota/Self Financing Payment Seats on All India Basis (Erstwhile NRI-Sponsored) for B.V.Sc. & A.H., B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture, B.Sc. (Hons) Horticulture and B. Tech. (Agriculture Engineering), B.Tech. Dairy Technology. That all-India self-financing category, once labelled NRI-sponsored, is now an ordinary paying route rather than a diaspora one, and it is where an outside candidate should be looking first.

Do not stop at that eligibility paragraph, though, because the seat tables printed twenty pages later disagree with it on two degrees. Dairy technology is named in the paragraph, yet its own breakup gives the whole intake of 29+1*=30 to open merit, reserved, economically weaker section and Domicile of UT of J&K &Ladakh: 05 seats, with no all-India line at all. Life sciences is left out of the paragraph, yet its breakup does carry Self-Financing Payment Seats on All India Basis (Erstwhile NRI-Sponsored): 04. An out-of-state candidate reading only the eligibility text would chase a dairy seat that the matrix does not create and skip a life sciences seat that it does; the seat tables are the ones counselling runs on, so check the degree you want in both places.

Biotechnology remains the one degree with no domicile column at all: for admission to undergraduate programme in Biotechnology, candidates from outside Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh can also apply, and its whole intake of 50 seats is filled on an all-India basis with no reservation in any category. Add the paying seats in the other degrees and the all-India column across the whole undergraduate matrix comes to 98, against only 02 kept strictly for NRI and OCI candidates. At master's level the door is wider still: the brochure provides that Self-Finance seats for post graduate courses in Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Sericulture, Basic Sciences. Fisheries, Agricultural Engineering admission under Self Finance category shall be done under All India basis, with PG programmes in Biotechnology and Microbiology shall be in self-finance mode on All India basis.

There is a trap in the application form for exactly that candidate. The application fee is Rs. 2000/- for the open merit, reserved, self-financing, wards and in-service categories and Rs. 8000/- for the NRI, OCI and all-India self-financing categories, and the footnote catches people out: candidates applying under the cheaper heading who want an all-India seat shall have to pay an application fee of Rs. 8000/- applicable to the said category. Postgraduate applicants pay Rs. 2500/-, and each figure rises by a set amount with late fee.

Two national quotas sit outside the entrance test entirely, and they are filled in Delhi rather than in Jammu. In agriculture, the Admission to the seats under the ICAR quota will be made on the basis of the list provided by ICAR through All India Counselling by ICAR after CUET-2026 is conducted by NTA, covering 28 of the 145 agriculture seats. In veterinary science, the admission to the seats under the VCI quota will be made on the basis of list provided by the VCI through their counselling portal, covering 13 of the 100. Neither route runs through the SKUAST-J paper, and neither appears on the university's own merit list. A third group has just stepped outside the test too: state in-service nominees are now exempted from appearing in the SKUAST-J Common Entrance Test (CET) and admitted instead on an interview, where securing a minimum of fifty percent (50%) marks in the interview shall be mandatory for eligibility for admission.

Everyone else sits the Common Entrance Test, and its structure rewards a different preparation from a medical or engineering entrance. The undergraduate paper is one paper of three hours duration containing 180 multiple choice questions split 60 each across Physics, Chemistry and a third subject, with for correct one answer 1 mark will be given and for incorrect answer a quarter mark will be deducted. The third section is where the current brochure tightened the rules, printing under the test structure that Mathematics/or Agriculture can only be taken by the candidates appearing for admission to B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture. Read literally that leaves Biology as the third section for every other degree, which sits awkwardly beside an eligibility table that still admits a maths or agriculture background to five of them, so confirm your section with the examination cell before you choose it. The master's paper is shorter and narrower, at 150 questions over two and a half hours in one of the nine major subject groups the brochure tabulates, with the same negative marking.

Eligibility is a school-marks bar plus an age floor. For every undergraduate programme the requirement is 50% in aggregate for open merit, NRI, OCI and all-India self-financing candidates and 40% for reserved categories, and the candidate must be 17 years old on or before 31.12.2026. Master's applicants must be not below 19 years of age, as on 31-12-2026, a floor the brochure says carries no relaxation, and must hold a bachelor's degree with an OGPA at least 6.00/10.00 for agriculture, horticulture, forestry and agricultural engineering, the bar falling to 5.50/10.00 for basic sciences and for reserved category candidates. One quiet condition sits under agricultural engineering: a candidate admitted there from a biology or agriculture background shall be required to study a deficiency course in Basic Mathematics-Il (2+0) in the first year.

Counselling has its own price list. It costs Rs 1000/- (non-refundable) to attend, paid once and carried through later rounds on the same receipt, since a candidate who has paid it need not to deposit fee in the succeeding counselling(s) provided the receipt is produced. Miss your assigned date and the rule is unforgiving: attending later costs a further Rs. 1500/-(non-refundable) as counselling fee, after which the candidate shall be considered for seat in a course available at that point of time. Such candidates cannot stake any claim whatsoever on any other seat already allotted despite their merit.

SKUAST-Jammu does not publish one closing rank, and the brochure explains why before the cycle even opens: it undertakes only that the category-wise cut-off rank for each counseling shall be notified separately, round by round. Merit here is not one ladder but a stack of them: the merit list for each course shall be prepared on the basis of inter-se merit and option/choice of the candidates in the SKUAST-J CET 2026 in the descending order for Open Merit Category and for each Reserved Category, separately. A Scheduled Tribe candidate and an open merit candidate are never competing for the same last seat, so a single number for "the SKUAST Jammu cutoff" would describe neither of them.

Where a seat falls vacant, it stays inside its category before it goes anywhere else, and the fallback has been rewritten. The rule now reads that any subsequent vacancy caused by whatsoever reason in any category shall be filled from amongst the candidates of that particular category strictly according to merit. In the event of non-availability of eligible candidates from that reserved category, the relevant vacancies shall be filled through Self-financing category/ Self-Financing Payment Seats on All India Basis (Erstwhile NRI-Sponsored) as the case may be. An unfilled reserved seat therefore reappears as a paying seat, and for a reserved category candidate that ordering is worth knowing, because a late withdrawal in your own category is your opportunity first.

Ties are broken on subject marks rather than on aggregate. Among undergraduates the university takes, in order, candidates obtaining higher marks in Biology/or Mathematics as the case may be, then those marks and chemistry in aggregate, then the candidate older in age. Among master's applicants it is candidates obtaining higher marks at graduation level, then the older candidate. A strong third section, not a broad average, is what settles a close finish.

The practical line, then, is a date rather than a rank, and the last completed cycle shows how far down the list the university actually travelled. The brochure allows four rounds of counseling followed by a mop-up round for undergraduates and three plus a mop-up for master's, and the notice board shows every one of them being used: after the Result of SKUAST-J CET (UG)-2026 conducted on 28th of June, 2026 came four rounds, a revised seat matrix before most of them, and then a Mop-up round of counselling for UG and PG Programmes with its own vacant-seat list. The brochure also provides that in case some seats remain vacant even after last round of counselling, the University shall call all candidates who have appeared in SKUAST-J CET for walk-in counselling. A rank that looks hopeless in round one is not finished until the walk-in has run.

On the paper itself, the answer key comes out fast and the objection window is short. The university shall make the answer key available on its website the following day of the examination, and objections with authenticated proof from standard textbooks are accepted by email for two days only. Where a question turns out to be unanswerable, the question will not be considered in evaluation and one mark will be given to all the candidates whether they have attempted this question or not.

The median salaries SKUAST-Jammu filed for its 2025 ranking return are high for an agricultural university, and the count of students they describe is small. Both facts belong in the same sentence, because reading either alone gives the wrong impression.

All four columns come out of one document, the ranking data SKUAST-Jammu filed for India Rankings 2025.

Add the last two columns in any row and they equal the first. In the four-year programmes 37 placed plus 80 in higher study accounts for all 117 graduates; the veterinary cohort splits 31 placed and 27 continuing out of 58, and the master's cohort 59 and 51 out of 110, at medians of 1057300 and 1326500 rupees. The filing leaves nobody in a third state, so the placement column here is not a hiring rate against an unemployed remainder. It is the share of a graduating class that chose work over another degree, and that share moves sharply by level: under a third in the four-year degrees, over half in the five-year veterinary programme.

The trend behind the four-year median is steep. It ran 496000 for the 2021-22 cohort, 1050000 for 2022-23 and 1023900 for 2023-24, a doubling in two years on placed counts of 31, 29 and 37. A median computed over thirty-odd offers moves a long way when two or three of them are unusual, so treat the level as real and the year-on-year change as noisy. The postgraduate series behaves the same way and more violently, with the 2021-22 cohort's median filed at 2807196 against 1350000 the next year.

No highest package, no recruiter list and no company names appear anywhere in the filing, and the university's own Counselling and Placement Cell page describes its process, its liaison officers and its skill workshops without naming a single employer. The only firms SKUAST-Jammu names itself are internship partners rather than recruiters: the brochure records that Bayer Crop Science, a global agri-input leader, selected 25 undergraduate students for hands-on internships through a competitive written test under the Rural Agricultural Work Experience programme, and that Saraswati Agrochemical Pvt. Ltd. extended paid internship opportunities to 20 B.Sc. (Hons) Agriculture students. Treat a longer employer list attributed to this university as something you should trace back to a university document before believing.

The full category split is published before applications open, which is what makes a realistic self-assessment possible here. Read down the columns rather than across the rows: the paying columns are now larger than the free ones.

That is the Summary of Seat Matrix of Undergraduate Degree Programmes as printed. Person-with-disability, defence, police and sports seats are marked horizontal reservation and are drawn from inside those columns rather than added to them, and the in-service government nominee line no longer carries a fixed count, being set instead as No. of seats as per the requirement received from the concerned department.

Compare that with the cycle before it and two changes stand out. The 2025-26 matrix ran to 423 seats over six degrees with 44 places kept for NRI and NRI-sponsored candidates and 50 on an all-India basis; the current one adds a seventh degree and converts almost all of that diaspora quota into an ordinary all-India paying category. The practical effect is on eligibility, not just on labels: the 2025 route into those seats required NRI status or a Certificate of sponsorship from a sponsoring non-resident, while the current brochure asks only NRI/OCI candidates for status proof and leaves the renamed all-India category open to any Indian candidate who pays. A candidate in Punjab or Maharashtra who could previously reach only biotechnology now has a route into five more degrees.

Master's seats are published discipline by discipline rather than as one total, and two of them are new this cycle: an MBA-( Agri-Business Management) with 15 places split 10 seats for candidates having educational qualification as B.Sc. Agriculture/ B.V.Sc.&A.H./ Allied Agricultural Sciences; 05 seats for candidates having educational qualification as B. Com/BBA/BA Economics/B.Sc. and other relevant graduates, and an M.Sc. (Horti.) (Urban Horticulture) inside the horticulture matrix. The MBA is the only programme here that a commerce or arts graduate can enter at all.

One national table carries SKUAST-Jammu, and the component scores say more about the place than the rank does.

Those are the university's entries in the 2025 agriculture ranking, which awards it 72.14 for teaching, 36.09 for research, 69.03 for graduation outcomes, 54.71 for outreach and 25.28 for perception. Teaching is its strongest column by a wide margin and research its weakest, which is the shape of a university whose intake has grown much faster than its publication record; perception, the column that reflects what employers and academics say when asked, is the lowest of the five.

The thing the rank does not tell you is where the university is absent. SKUAST-Jammu appears in the agriculture table and in no other 2025 table, so there is no overall, no university and no state public university position to quote for it. A figure circulating under the SKUAST name in any of those three tables belongs to the Srinagar university, which files separately.

Teaching runs through six faculties and one institute, and the campus split decides which of them you can walk between. Chatha holds the Faculty of Agriculture, the Faculty of Basic Sciences, the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, the Faculty of Horticulture and Forestry and the Institute of Biotechnology; R.S. Pura holds the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry and the Faculty of Dairy Technology.

The division lists are as printed in the SKUAST-J CET information brochure, and the campus allocation is the one its faculties and institute menu uses.

The veterinary faculty is the outlier in every respect. It carries by far the longest division list, it keeps a fisheries division that no other faculty duplicates, and it is the one faculty whose degree is regulated by a national council with a seat quota of its own. It is also the reason the R.S. Pura campus needs its own library, its own health centre and its own hostels, all of which it has.

Three undergraduate degrees carry a second qualification if a student can pay for it. The university has entered in an MoU with Western Sydney University, Australia for offering an opportunity of dual degree for the Undergraduate students in agriculture, horticulture and biotechnology, with the final year spent in Sydney and a second degree awarded there. The articulation is not a like-for-like swap: agriculture and horticulture both graduate into a B.Sc. (Agrifood) and biotechnology into a B.Sc. (Biology), so the Australian degree is broader than the Indian one it accompanies.

The library is the largest single academic building on either campus. The Central Library is a modern three-storey glazed building having 5382 sq. meter area built up at the cost of Rs. 945 lacs at Chatha, and the veterinary and dairy students at R.S. Pura have a faculty library of 2937 sq. meter area rather than a shuttle to the main campus. Both are open access.

Healthcare is duplicated across the two sites as well, and the detail is unusually specific for a university brochure. SKUAST-Jammu reports two health centres, one at Chatha and one at R.S. Pura, Two full-time Medical Officers along with paramedical Staff, dental services twice a week at Chatha, a full-time physiotherapist at Chatha, clinical laboratory tests free of cost, and a Three bed indoor facility at Chatha Campus & two bed indoor facilities at R.S. Pura Campus with an ambulance at both.

The specialised laboratories are listed by function on the university's own site rather than bundled as a count, and the list reads like the research programme it supports: a tissue culture lab, a geo-spatial lab, a soil testing lab, a seed testing lab, a hi-end molecular lab, a language lab, an NKN lab and data centre, and virtual classrooms. Alongside them sit a veterinary referral hospital and clinical complex, hi-tech polyhouses, an incubation centre, a herbal garden, the Baba Jitto Auditorium and Radio Kisan Jammu 90.8, the FM station the university lists among its own central facilities.

Of the capital money the university spends on academics, equipment takes by far the largest share. The ranking return records annual capital expenditure on new equipment for laboratories of 61416434 rupees in 2023-24, against 28640209 the year before, while the library's own capital line stayed near 3843294 rupees. A student choosing between a laboratory-heavy discipline and a reading-heavy one should read those two lines together.

The disability answers come as proportions, not counts. Both the lift-and-ramp line and the accessible-toilet line are filed at more than 80% of the buildings, while wheelchairs, walking aids and a transport service between blocks are simply confirmed. That leaves a fifth of the estate unaccounted for, and at a university split over two sites the question is which fifth, since R.S. Pura sits well outside the city; the students welfare office is the only place that can answer it. In the entrance hall itself the provision is concrete: Disabled students shall be granted an extra time @ 20 minutes per hour in entrance tests.

One notice on the front page bears on whether all of that is still standing. It reads Flash Flood Devastation at SKUAST-Jammu; Damage Crosses Rs 100 Crores, and it runs alongside a line saying that the Zonal workshop of Krishi Vigyan Kendras Zone-I which was scheduled to be held w.e.f. 01-03, September, 2025 stands postponed till further notice. Ask the students welfare office about the state of a specific building rather than assuming the brochure's description of it is current.

Accommodation here is allotted, not owed. The brochure states plainly that Limited hostel facilities are available. The University will provide accommodation to the extent possible and that students cannot claim it as a matter of right. The stock is published bed by bed, which makes the odds calculable in a way most universities do not allow.

Capacities are the university's list of hostels with warden details, which counts 198 beds in Sankalp and 140 in Lakshya on the men's side and 175 in Urja, 105 in Pragati, 100 in Sanskriti, 65 in the Farmer Hostel and 62 in Ujala on the women's, with a 75 bed hostel for Scheduled Tribe students at R.S. Pura still under construction. One inconsistency is worth knowing before you count on a bed: the website marks the Urja extension as under construction, while the current brochure lists New URJA Girls Hostel Ext. among its nine functioning hostels with a warden already appointed to it, and drops the ST Hostel from that list entirely.

Two things fall out of the table. First, only two hostels on the whole university house men, one on each campus, against six for women; in beds the gap is much narrower than that count suggests, because the two men's blocks are among the largest. Second, a veterinary or dairy student at R.S. Pura draws only on that campus, where the completed stock is Lakshya for men and Pragati and Sanskriti for women, with no Chatha room available to them.

The room rent is a small part of what a hostel place actually costs. Per semester the university charges 4813 for a single seater, 3438 for a dormitory place and 6875 for an NRI room, but the charges around it are much larger. With mess, electricity, generator, maintenance and the refundable hostel and mess securities, everything except room rent comes to 32935 rupees at first admission and 21935 a semester after it, of which mess and canteen alone are 13750. Put the two schedules side by side and a continuing dormitory semester bills 25373 rupees against an academic charge of 10728: for an undergraduate on a normal fee seat, living in costs more than twice what studying costs.

Sports facilities are attached to the hostels rather than centralised. Chatha runs an indoor sports complex with badminton, table tennis, carrom, chess and a gymnasium alongside outdoor volleyball, basketball, lawn tennis and a cricket ground, while R.S. Pura adds a hockey ground to a similar outdoor set, and individual hostels keep their own courts.

The teaching body is small against the enrolment it carries. SKUAST-Jammu entered 243 faculty members in its 2025 ranking return, against a student strength of 730 in the four-year undergraduate programmes, 376 in the five-year programme and the same number again in the two-year master's programmes, plus 264 full-time doctoral scholars. Those numbers were also filed against a sanctioned undergraduate intake that had just jumped from 182 to 306 in a single year on the four-year side, so the teaching load per faculty member was rising as those figures were filed.

What that faculty is being funded to do has changed sharply. In 2023-24 the university reported 120 sponsored projects drawing 774817143 rupees from 35 funding agencies; two years earlier the same two lines read 82 projects and 105097228 rupees. Grant money rose sevenfold while the project count rose by less than half, so the average project got much bigger rather than more numerous. Consultancy went the other way and stayed small, at 38 projects for 19 client organisations worth 8525000 rupees. This is a grant-funded faculty, not a fee-for-service one, and a master's student choosing an advisor should ask which funded project they would be joining.

Doctoral output has not tracked the money yet. Full-time doctorates awarded ran 53 in 2021-22, 51 in 2022-23 and 38 in 2023-24, a fall of rather more than a quarter over two years while the doctoral roll stood at 264. The grants arrived recently enough that the theses they fund have not been submitted.

The one composition figure worth pulling out is gender, and it splits by programme rather than running one way. Women outnumber men in the four-year degrees at 428 to 302 and in the master's programmes at 198 to 178, while the five-year veterinary programme runs the other way at 230 men to 146 women. The university is led by Dr. B.N. Tripathi as Vice-Chancellor, and its own contacts page publishes the name, phone number and email of every dean, director and division head, which is a faster route to a subject specialist than a general enquiry line.

SKUAST-Jammu names no individual graduate in its admission brochure, on its admission notices or on the public side of its alumni portal, and no name is borrowed here from a listing site to fill the space. The SKUAST-J alumni portal is a registration and login system for graduates rather than a public roll, so the identities it holds are not readable from outside.

What the university does publish is the direction its graduates take, in its own words. The brochure says they find placements in esteemed positions such as Scientists in reputed Universities and Research Organizations, Indian Administrative Services, Indian Forest Services, Jammu & Kashmir Administrative Services, and various sectors including Public and Private Banking. That is a self-description without a count behind it. The one hard number that speaks to the same question is the higher-study column in the placement table above, where most of each four-year graduating class continues into another degree rather than into a job.

Chatha sits north of Jammu city on the Pathankot side, close enough to the airport that an out-of-state candidate can reach it without an overnight stop, while R.S. Pura is a separate journey to the south-west near the international border.

The switchboard 0191-2262133 and the postal address at Chatha, 180009, are in the footer of the university's hostel and student facilities page; the Vice-Chancellor's line 191-2263714, the registrar's 191-2262012 and the students welfare mobile 9469212589 are on its contacts page; and the examination cell's 9419226376 and the librarian's 0191-2262037 are printed in the CET information brochure.

Two practical notes on using that list. Admission questions go to the Controller of Examinations rather than to the Registrar, because the examination cell is the office that conducts and regulates SKUAST-J Common Entrance Test, for admissions to various undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral degree programmes. And the jurisdiction clause in the brochure is worth reading before any dispute: The jurisdiction for any disputes is located in Jammu City.

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