University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, (UASD), which was carved out of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore in the 1980s, imparts graduate, post graduate course and research facilities in field of agriculture, forestry, horticulture and home science. The university was started on 1 October 1986. It is located on Dharwad-Belgaum road on a campus with space for growing trees and fields for conducting experiments and research. The university has several constituent colleges at different places of Karnataka state like in Raichur, Sirsi, Arabhavi. Note: List is indicative not exhaustive. Graduates from this university are appointed as agriculture scientists, agriculture officers in state and central governments, banks and other financial institutions such as insurance companies. With the setting up of commodity exchanges in India, degree holders in agriculture are in greater demand.