University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
Former names
 Hochschule für Bodenkultur
Motto Universität des Lebens
Motto in English
 University of Life
Type Public
Established 1872 (1872)
Rector Martin Gerzabek
Academic staff
 about 1,000
Administrative staff
 about 500
Students about 12,000
Location Vienna, Austria
Website www.boku.ac.at

The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, or simply BOKU (derived from its German name, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, literally Vienna University for Soil Culture), founded in 1872, is "an education and research centre for renewable resources" in Vienna.[1] There are currently around 12,000 students enrolled at BOKU.

Campus

University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna in 1896
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor-Mendel building
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Wilhelm Exner building
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Guttenberg building

The original campus was built in 1896 in the Türkenschanzpark in Vienna's 18th and 19th districts. The Departments of Sustainable Agriculture, Soil Science, Horticulture, and Animal Husbandry are still headquartered at this original campus. Another campus, located at Mutgasse near the Heiligenstadt U-bahn station, is the headquarters for the biotechnology, chemistry, plant sciences, water resource management, and food sciences departments. A new building with chemistry and food sciences laboratories, facilities, and lecture halls was completed at this campus in 2009. There is also a research facility in Tulln, north of the city, with biotechnology and agricultural sciences laboratories and facilities. There are several other locations the university controls: Lunz, Rosentalia Lehrforst study centre, Knödelhütte in Vienna and currently Augasse in the old shats Universität.

Conversion to European Union University Structure

During the 2004/2005 school year, the school began the switch to the European Union system of higher education (Universitätsgesetz (UG) 2002), meaning that they initiated a three-tier system of studies. From that point on, the university offered bachelor-type degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees. This was a change from the older Austrian system of Diplomstudien, in which graduates left the University with a diploma representing something more specialized and involved than a bachelor's degree, but less so than a master's degree. In the years from 2005 to 2009, the last of the Diplom students completed their studies at the University, and no new Diplom studies were begun.

The changeover also restructured the faculty and department organization at BOKU. The existing 40 "institutes" of faculty were converted to 13 "departments," although there are currently 15 departments at the university.

Departments

Studies

Bachelor programmes

German Master programmes

English Master programmes

International Master programmes

Doctoral Programmes

Notable alumni

Notable scientists

Notes and references

  1. ↑ BOKU, "General Information". Accessed: May 24, 2012.

External links

Coordinates: 48°14′12″N 16°20′14″E / 48.23667°N 16.33722°E / 48.23667; 16.33722

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