Established	1918
Rector Magnificus	Professor Martin Kropff
Executive Board President	Aalt Dijkhuizen
Location	Wageningen, the Netherlands
Students (BSc, MSc, PhD) (2004)	6000 total
MSc graduates (2004)	994 total (including 309 international MSc)
PhD graduates (2004)	170 total (including 76 international PhD)
Staff (2004)	6500 total (including 185 full professors)
Homepage	http://www.wur.nl

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Wageningen University provides education and generates knowledge in the field of life sciences and natural resources. Wageningen UR aims to make a real contribution to our quality of life. Quality of life means to the university both an adequate supply of safe and healthy food and drink, on the one hand, and the chance to live, work and play in a balanced ecosystem with a large variety of plants and animals.

Wageningen UR is a collaboration between Wageningen University, Van Hall Larenstein School of Higher Professional Education and the specialised former research institutes (DLO) from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture. With this combination of knowledge and experience Wageningen UR tries to contribute actively to solving scientific, social and commercial problems in the field of life sciences and natural resources. Wageningen UR approaches these national and international issues from the perspectives of various disciplines, with an integrated approach and in close collaboration with governments, companies, stakeholder organisations, citizens, and other knowledge institutions. We pay attention to the balance between three priorities in society: economics, culture and nature. The Defence Logistics Organisation is an agency of the United Kingdom MoD charged with managing the storage and supply chain assets of the Ministry and the British Armed Forces. ...

Wageningen University and Research Centre (also known als Wageningen UR) consists of Wageningen University, Wageningen Business School, Van Hall Larenstein and a number of Dutch research institutes:

• Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI)
• Agrotechnology & Food Sciences Group (AFSG)
• Alterra - Research Institute for the Green World (ALTERRA)
• International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement (ILRI)
• Animal Sciences Group (ASG)
• Applied Plant Research (PPO)
• Central Institute for Animal Disease Control (CIDC-Lelystad)
• International Agricultural Centre (IAC)
• Plant Research International (PRI)
• RIKILT-Institute of Food Safety

It is based in the Dutch city of Wageningen. Wageningen is a municipality and a historical town in the central Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. ...

The university has about 6,000 students. Its core business are life and agricultural sciences.

ECTS

Wageningen University is the first Dutch University that is allowed to use the ECTS label. This label is awarded by the European Commission and guarantees the quality of the study programme. An important consideration is that the University consequently applies the European Credit Transfer System; this promotes the mobility of students within Europe and prevents study delay. The label is a prestigious acknowledgement of the international character of the University. European credit transfer system (ECTS) is a method that is used to compare the marks (US: grade) given in education across European Union. ... The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive body of the European Union. ... European credit transfer system (ECTS) is a method that is used to compare the marks (US: grade) given in education across European Union. ...

BSc programmes

Wageningen University offers 18 BSc programmes (2005-2006). The language of instruction of some programmes is partly Dutch, partly English. For some BSc programmes the language of instruction is English. The programmes start each year in September, they last three years and are comprised of 180 ECTS credits. The programmes are in the field of economy& society, health, life sciences & technology, nature & environment, animals & plants.

Economy and society

• Business and consumer studies
• Economic policy
• International development studies

Health

• Health and society
• Nutrition and health

Technology

• Agro technology
• Biotechnology
• Food technology
• Molecular sciences

Nature and environment

• Soil, water and air
• Forest and nature conservation
• International land and water conservation
• Landscape architecture and spatial planning
• Environmental studies

Animals and plants

• Biology
• Biological Production Sciences
• Animal sciences
• Plant sciences

MSc programmes

Wageningen University offers a wide range of MSc programmes (2005-2006). The language of instruction is English. The programmes start each year in September, they last two years and are comprised of 120 ECTS credits. Most programmes offer various specialisations and possiblilities fort majors.

• Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering
• Animal Sciences and Aquaculture
• Aquaculture and Fisheries
• Bioinformatics
• Biology
• Biomedical Research and Technology
• Biotechnology
• Communication Science
• Earth System Science
• Environmental Sciences
• European Masters Degree in Food Studies
• Food Quality Management
• Food Safety
• Food Technology
• Forest and Nature Conservation
• Geo-information Science
• Hydrology and Water Quality
• International Development Studies
• International Land and Water Management
• Landscape Architecture and Planning
• Leisure, Tourism and Environment
• Management of Agro-ecological Knowledge and Social Change
• Management, Economics and Consumer Studies
• Meteorology and Air Quality
• Molecular Sciences
• Nutrition and Health
• Organic Agriculture
• Plant Biotechnology
• Plant Sciences
• Soil Science
• Urban Environmental Management

PhD programme

The PhD programme is a four-year programme which consists of a research component and a smaller education component. To apply for a PhD position, the applicant must contact one of the Graduate Schools of Wageningen University. In order to guarantee adequate supervision, the research subject must fit in the research programme of a Graduate School. The four-year PhD programme consists of a research component (conducting research under supervision and writing a thesis) and a smaller education component (up to 15% of the total PhD time) Upon completion of PhD programme, the PhD student is expected to be:

• Able to function as an independent scientist.
• Able to integrate his/her own work in the theoretical framework of his/her discipline(s) in a broader area of research and able to communicate this in a scientific or general setting.
• Competent in identifying priority areas of research and in formulating questions and experimental hypotheses pertinent to this research.