BOKU (Austria)

Founded in 1872, the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, known too by its acronym "BOKU", now comprises 13 departments and four service centres in Vienna , as well as a number of experimental centres around Vienna . The principal university buildings are located in two areas, the Türkenschanze and Muthgasse. At Türkenschanze are located the departments which provide teaching and research in the agricultural sciences, forestry, wood technology, and landscape architecture and conservation; the departments concerned with food science, biotechnology, land and water management and civil engineering are based at Muthgasse.

The university has around 6,000 students (of which 15% are international), provides bachelor's and master's degrees and doctoral level, has 338 permanent teaching staff who are also engaged in research, a broad range of external lecturers, and some 400 persons working in services and administration.

In order to fulfil the requirements of the EU's Bologna Agreement with respect to curriculum development, the university has redesigned its course structure, which now comprises 10 BSc programmes and 24 master's programmes. 8 of the 24 master's programmes are international programmes out of which 6 are entirely given in English.

MSc European Forestry studies at BOKU

BOKU offers to the MSc EF students a very wide range of courses in English, in addition to the supervision of the Master Thesis. For those MSc EF students choosing BOKU for their second year of studies, a double degree MSc European Forestry is provided together with the University of Joensuu.

To obtain the required 120 ECTS of the MSc EF programme, students who follow the 2nd year of the MSc EF programme at BOKU must take a minimum of 30 ECTS of elective courses in addition to their thesis work (30 ECTS).

Each student designs his/her individual study plan according to his/her field of interest, thesis objectives, career prospectives, etc.

All courses offered within BOKU's MSc Mountain Forestry (find them clicking here) can be recognised as elective courses of the 2nd year of MSc European Forestry at BOKU. Likewise forestry related subjects from all other BOKU Master's Programmes can be included in the study plan - see the list of BOKU Master's Programmes at: https://blis.boku.ac.at/zope/tpp/lv/sp/index_html and then search for courses given in English: go to "search"/ top of the page/ tick off "held in English" and go to "search" at the bottom of the page ).

The eligibility of the individual study plan must be confirmed by Prof. Hasenauer at the beginning of the MSc EF 2nd year.

For more information on the studies offered, you may contact the Austrian coordinators of the MScEF programme, Professor Hubert Hasenauer or Ms Judith Weiss (Email: judith.weiss (at) boku.ac.at), or check BOKU's website at http://www.boku.ac.at/