University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna

University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna

The University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, or simply BOKU (derived from its German name Universität für Bodenkultur, literally "University for Soil Culture"), founded in 1872, is one of Vienna's universities. The school had a student population of 4,700 in 2003.

Areas of study

* Agricultural engineering and water management
* Food and biotechnology
* Landscape architecture
* NARMEE Programme (Natural Resource Management and Ecological Engineering) [http://www.boku.ac.at/narmee/]
* Forestry
* Wood and Fibre Technology
* Management of Environment and Bio Resources
* Environmental Engineering
* Food Science and Biotechnology
* Organic farming
* Mountain Risk Engineering
* Phytomedizin
* Mountain Forestry (http://www.boku.ac.at/mf.html)

Notable alumni

* Leopold Figl

External links

* [http://www.boku.ac.at School homepage]


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