The College also has 14 centres that serve as a base for knowledge transfer and partnerships, these are complemented by facilities located at Nyabyeya Forest College and Budongo Conservation Field Station that cater for Forestry students. The College human resource consists of 400 employees, 170 Academic staff of whom 140 are PhD holders at ratio of 20% female, with 19 staff at the rank of professor and 31 at the rank of Associate Professor. It has over 2,922 students. Of these 2,758 (94.4%) are undergraduate students and 164 (5.6%) are graduate students (Masters and PhD). CAES is offering 15 undergraduate programmes, 19 master’s programmes, 11 PhD programmes and three post graduate diplomas in the broad areas of agriculture, food science and nutrition, forestry, environmental and geographical sciences. To support its mandate, CAES has eight libraries, 19 research laboratories, six computer laboratories, and one GIS laboratory.

The College continues to rank high in excellence in innovative teaching, research and innovations contributing to the realisation of Makerere University’s strategic direction which is oriented on addressing national and global development priorities. Over the years, the faculty at CAES have produced cutting-edge research and innovations that have greatly uplifted the ranking and position of Makerere University.   CAES’ publications have grown to 350 per year.