Universities & Higher Education Institutions

Increasing numbers of people around the world are spending a growing proportion of their leisure time and money on tourism related activities. It is widely acknowledged that tourism is a constitutive force assembling economic, cultural, soc...

The world we live in is increasingly an urban one. Over the past half century, a great population shift has occurred from rural to urban areas. Cities now hold over half of the world's population, and it is estimated that two out of three p...

Quality problems in food and other perishable products are generally tackled using either a technological or a management approach. In the past years, a concept has been developed that combines both the technological and the management aspe...

The objective of the MSc programme Geo-Information Science is to educate graduates in becoming skilled geo-information scientists with the competences to analyze the usability of geo-information in complex spatial problems and to develop in...

In the MSc programme Climate Studies, Wageningen University has bundled expertise from Earth-, Life-, and Social Sciences. This unique MSc programme is aimed specifically at students who wish to focus on the scientific insights in climate c...

Bioinformatics is a highly interdisciplinary rapidly developing branch of life science and aims to characterize the molecular components of living systems. It offers the research and developing tool for systems biology. Bioinformatics gains...

The MSc Plant Biotechnology focuses on the development and application of biotechnological tools and concepts to study and improve plant characteristics and traits. In recent years there has been an impressive increase in the availability a...

Sound land and water management is crucial in addressing global challenges such as poverty alleviation, food security, and the prevention or mitigation of climate change induced conflicts and disasters. The MSc program International Land an...

Innovations in the field of agriculture, food and natural resource management have a dual nature: they consist of new technological practices as well as new socio-organisational arrangements involving a variety of societal actors. As a resu...

In the 21st century, earth and environment scientists are facing the societal challenge of providing information about the causes and characteristics of earth changes and its effects on the functioning of ecosystems on a human time scale: c...

Being a 'University for Life Sciences', Wageningen University is concerned with the improvement of the quality of life. Research and educational programmes aimed at improving the quality of life can be done on different levels of integratio...

The BSc programme Food Technology is designed to provide the student with a broad knowledge of all aspects of Food Science and Technology and related disciplines. The food technology bachelor has the capacity and skills to enter the MSc Foo...

The BSc programme Soil, Water, Atmosphere is a programme in the domain of Earth Sciences and focuses on the outer Earth's crust and the atmosphere in relation to their significance to mankind. It focuses on the structures and patterns found...

The domain of the BSc programme Nutrition and Health is the role of dietary and life style factors in human health and disease. This role is studied from a biomedical perspective, from population-level down to the molecular level. Human nut...

The 21st century has been called the "Age of Biology." Advances in understanding of biological systems, from cells to biomes, drive our society forward. These advances are also central to global concerns about how we affect, and are affecte...