Master programme in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)

Norway 

One of the eight Nordic agricultural and veterinary universities which together with the Faculty of Life Sciences make up the NOVA network. UMB has a strong teaching and research environment in a number of agriculturally related subject areas and offers a wide range of courses in Norwegian and English.

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

University of Eastern Finland, School of Forest Sciences (UEF-F) 

University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry (HU-AF)

One of the eight Nordic agricultural and veterinary universities which together with the Faculty of Life Sciences make up the NOVA network. The university has a strong environment within food science and the courses offered include dairy and meat science, food economy and sensorics.

LaSalle Beauvais 

France 

The Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais has a strong environment within plant science, livestock and agribusiness. It offers a wide range of courses, mainly in French, but exchange students are given a personal tutor who provides assistance with technical terms. An English semester has been introduced in the spring.   

Ecole Supérieure d'Agriculture in Angers

France 

Located in the university town of Angers in the Loire valley, it is one of France’s leading agricultural universities with 2,500 students and many international students. The study programmes are offered in French and English with courses in plant production, animal production, European wine production, food industry management and technology, farming economy and environment as well as landscape management.

Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel

The university, which is located in Kassel, is one of the leading universities in organic farming and focuses on sustainable development with regional and international references. The university offers an English-language MSc programme in Organic Farming in addition to a wide range of courses in German.

Germany

One of the six European universities that together with the Faculty of Life Sciences make up the Euroleague for Life Sciences network. The university offers courses and full MSc programmes in both German and English within a number of fields, including agricultural engineering with focus on technical and structural production processes, animal husbandry and plant science aimed at ensuring the development and use of profitable and sustainable agricultural production. The university also offers English-language courses under the MSc programme “Envirofood” which focuses on the relations and effects of intensive agricultural production on ecosystems.

Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel

Germany 

The university is located in Stuttgart and was founded in 1665. CAU has a long-established tradition in agricultural science and enjoys a strong position in animal nutrition. Courses are offered at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Metabolic Physiology under the Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences.  

Universität für Bodenkultur

One of the six European universities which together with the Faculty of Life Sciences make up the Euroleague for Life Sciences network, and BOKU and the faculty have a close partnership within a number of fields. BOKU has a long-established tradition in agriculturally related research and teaching.

Warsaw Agricultural University (SGGW)

One of the strongest agricultural universities in Eastern Europe with a long-established agricultural tradition and an extensive partnership with Europe’s leading agricultural universities. The Faculty of Life Sciences has an important partnership with SGGW within animal nutrition, among other things.

Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR)

One of the six European universities that together with the Faculty of Life Sciences make up the Euroleague for Life Sciences network. The university has a strong academic environment and offers a wide range of courses in English within most fields of agricultural science, including animal nutrition.

Maribor University

Slovenia 

Maribor University in Slovenia has a close bilateral partnership with the Faculty of Life Sciences on, among other things, a Socrates intensive course in organic farming which was offered in summer 2005. The university offers courses in English and continuous language lessons in Slovenian.

United Kingdom 

One of the oldest universities in Scotland and one of the Faculty of Life Sciences’ most popular partner institutions with study programmes within most fields of agricultural science. Aberdeen has a good academic environment within animal nutrition, among other things.

Students must follow at least 50 % of their courses within the subjects of the agreement.

University of Wales, Aberystwyth

United Kingdom 

Has a strong position in the environmental area and offers courses in Environmental Impact Assessment and environmental management, among other things. The university works with the Faculty of Life Sciences on Socrates theme courses in Ecological Agriculture. Student life in Aberystwyth has a good reputation.

Cornell University

USA 

Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)mission is to discover, integrate, disseminate, and apply knowledge about agriculture and food sciences, applied social sciences, environmental sciences and the life sciences as a basis for sustainable improvement in the lives of people throughout the world.

The Natural Resources program explore issues related to maximizing biodiversity, enhancing and sustaining ecosystems, mitigating climate change, and managing natural resources in partnership with local groups, state agencies, and national and international environmental organizations.

USA 

Illinois has tremendous breadth and depth in academics, with more than 150 undergraduate and more than 100 graduate and professional programs. A preeminent faculty propels many academic programs to be ranked among the best in the world. This emphasis on campuswide academic excellence has built Illinois' reputation as one of the nation's premier public universities.

The program in Environmental and Resource Economics explores the complex relationships between environmental quality, economic prosperity, and human behavior. Students and Faculty departments across campus are using economics to analyze policy regarding some of today's most critical environmental and natural resource issues.

University of Minnesota, College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences

The Natural Resources Science and Management (NRSM) Graduate Program is among the top ranked programs of its kind in the United States. The National Research Council's latest rankings, released in September 2010, place the National Ressource Science Management program as high as number two in the country.  They offer eight ares of study (tracks) encompassing graduate course offerings from the Departments of Forest Resources, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering; Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology; and other units.

University of Guelph

Canada 

Australian National University

ANU has always been a university with a difference, set apart by its research intensity. The high reputation of ANU within the international academy is now matched by an equivalent and high reputation outside the academy.

Recommended subject areas; Climate and Environment.

Murdoch University 

Australia

Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, have more than 18,000 students and 1,400 staff with a desire to discover, use their imaginations and ultimately make a difference.

Murdoch University embrace free thinking and encourage our Murdoch community to share ideas, pool knowledge and find new ways of thinking. Across Australia, they're recognised for excellent teaching, ground-breaking research and our high number of satisfied students.

University of Tasmania

UTAS is committed to the creation, preservation, communication and application of knowledge, as well as excellence in all teaching, research and scholarly activities. UTAS are ranked in the top 10 research universities in Australia and continue to make far-reaching educational, cultural and economic contributions to Tasmania and the world.

Recommended subject areas; Plant Science

University of Sydney

Australia 

Sydney is unique among Australia's leading universities in the breadth of disciplines they offer, providing wide opportunities for personal development and cross-disciplinary study that delivers unique insights and breakthroughs.
University of Sydney students and researchers come from all over the world and all backgrounds to prepare for a life of challenge and change.

Cultivation of students' comprehensive personality is a key area for education in CAU. Off-class education activities are widely organized in this regard. A diversified and colorful campus life attracts all the students with active participation of faculty and staff members. CAU has more than 70 students' associations/teams covering a wide range of cultural and social activities, such as politics, economics, culture, science and technology, theory, practice and volunteers.

The Malaysian University in Sarawak pursue the idea of becoming an exemplary university of internationally acknowledged stature and a scholarly institution of choice for both students and academics through the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and scholarship.

UNIMAS' vision is to produce holistically developed graduates with a keen sense of leadership and professional skills, build entrepreneurial skills and competitiveness to enable graduates to adapt to new challenges as well as foster graduates with the quest to pursue quality life-long learning in line with the rapid social and technological development.

EARTH University

EARTH, located in Guácimo, Limón, Costa Rica is a private, international, non-profit university dedicated to education in the
agricultural sciences and natural resources in order to contribute to sustainable development in the tropics by seeking a balance between agricultural production and environmental preservation.