Wageningen University
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| motto | For quality of life |
| founding | 1918 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Wageningen , Netherlands |
| Rector | Arthur Mol |
| Students | 8,500 (university) |
| Employee | 7,400 (WUR) |
| including professors | 185 |
| Networks | ELLS |
| Website | www.wur.nl |
The Wageningen University ( Dutch Wageningen Universiteit ) is a university in the Netherlands based in the city of Wageningen . She specializes in the life sciences in the broadest sense and is a founding member of the Euroleague for Life Sciences .
courses
The course consists of two parts: the Bachelor of Science course (BSc) with a duration of three years, followed by the Master of Science course (MSc) with a duration of two years. Wagening's courses are not subject to a numerus fixus. At the latest from the master’s degree (fourth and fifth years, depending on the degree), the lessons are completely in English .
The list of all Bachelor and Master programs:
Society & Economy
- BSc Business and Consumer Science
- BSc Economics and Politics
- BSc International Development Studies
- BSc Communication Science
- BSc Health and Society
- MSc Applied Communication Science
- MSc Development and Rural Innovation
- MSc Health and Society
- MSc International Development Studies
- MSc Management Economics and Consumer Studies
Technology & nutrition
- BSc Agrotechnology
- BSc Biotechnology
- BSc Food Technology
- BSc Molecular Life Sciences
- BSc Nutrition and Health (Numerus Fixus since 2013)
- MSc Bioinformatics
- MSc Biosystems Engineering
- MSc Biotechnology
- MSc Food Quality Management
- MSc Food Safety
- MSc Food Technology
- MSc Molecular Life Sciences
- MSc Nutrition and Health (Numerus Fixus since 2013)
- MSc Sensory Science
Environment & landscape
- BSc soil, water, atmosphere
- BSc Forest Use and Nature Conservation
- BSc International Land and Water Management
- BSc Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
- BSc Environmental Science
- BSc Tourism
- MSc Climate Studies
- MSc Earth and Environment
- MSc Environmental Sciences
- MSc Forest and Nature Conservation
- MSc Geographical Information Management and Applications
- MSc Geo-Information Science
- MSc International Land and Water Management
- MSc Landscape Architecture and Planning
- MSc Leisure, Tourism and Environment
- MSc Urban Environmental Management
Biology, Plants & Animals
- BSc Biology
- BSc Animal Science
- BSc Plant Sciences
- MSc Animal Sciences
- MSc Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management
- MSc Biology
- MSc Organic Agriculture
- MSc Plant Biotechnology
- MSc Plant Sciences
Wageningen University and Research Center
1918 was Landbouw Hogeschool Wageningen founded in 1986 in Wageningen Agricultural renamed. In 2000 the Wageningen University and Research Center ( Wageningen Universiteit en Researchcentrum or simply Wageningen UR or "WUR") was founded, which consists of a collaboration between the Wageningen University, the Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences and various Dutch research institutes. The whole center now has over 8,500 students and 7,400 employees.
Partner universities
The university has partnerships with universities worldwide; some of the most important partnerships in Europe are united in the Euroleague for Life Sciences :
- the Royal Veterinary and Agriculture University (since 2007 Environmental Science Faculty of the University of Copenhagen )
- the University of Hohenheim
- the Czech Agricultural University in Prague
- the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala
- the Warsaw Agricultural University
- the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
International comparison
In the evaluation list Times: Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016 , Wageningen University was ranked 49th in a global comparison of 400 universities studied. This made it the best university in the Netherlands.
See also
Web links
- Official website of Wageningen University (multilingual)
- German pages
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 5 ° 39 ′ 31 ″ E