Erected in 1953, with funds from the Ford Foundation, it houses the on-campus departments of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences with classrooms and laboratories. The off-campus facilities of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences are at the University Farm, a two hundred and fifty acre tract on the road to Baalbeck in the Bekaa' Valley. The Farm is a rural and research center for students in agriculture where each is expected to spend the equivalent of one academic year. The farm includes a dozen buildings for administration offices, classrooms, laboratories, shops, and dormitories.