State Agricultural Universities are academic organizations, which contribute significantly to agricultural development. Congenial organizational climate provided by the Universities leads to efficient functioning of the scientists which in turn helps in achieving the objectives of the organization. The present study was conducted to study the perception of scientists about prevailing organizational climate. Three State Agricultural Universities of northern region were selected randomly for the purpose of this study viz. GBPUAT, CCSHAU and PAU. A sample of 100 scientists from each SAU i.e. GBPUAT, CCSHAU and PAU were selected with probability proportion to number of scientists cadre wise and number of scientists in teaching, research and extension. A Likert scale was used for measuring the perceived prevailing climate. It was found that in GBPUAT more than sixty per cent of the scientists perceived the climate as above average in the area of supervision and decision making. In CCSHAU 45.00 per cent of the scientists perceived the prevailing organizational climate as below average in the area of managing rewards and decision making. In PAU, 62.00 per cent and 56.00 per cent of the scientists perceived the prevailing climate as above average in the area of managing rewards and decision making. It was concluded that there is need to make improvement in the area of decision making and managing rewards in all the studied SAUs

Keyword: Analysis; Organizational