History
- The „Hochschülchen“ (Rainer Schubert-Soldern), which is located on Türkenschanze since 1896, once was a small agricultural college founded in 1872.
- The „grüne Universität im Grünen/green university on the green“ was soon called „alma mater viridis“ - „grüne Nährmutter/ green foster mother“.
Education
Today BOKU is a modern, international University of Life Sciences with 9 Bachelor and 25 Master programmes for more than 10.000 students.
Research
- Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering (MAP)
- Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
- Department of Water - Atmosphere - Environment (WAU)
- Department of Nanobiotechnology (DNBT)
- Department of Chemistry (DCH)
- Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research (DIB)
- Department of Food Science and Technology (DLWT)
- Department of Landscape, Spatial and Infrastructure Sciences
- Department of Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo)
- Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems
- Department of Civil Engineering and Natural Hazards
- Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences
- Department of Crop Sciences (DNW)
- Department of Agrobiotechnology, IFA-Tulln
- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology (DAGZ)
Career
Job offers of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna. Scientific, non-scientific, Job offers for students and alumni.
University Ranking
Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2024
601 -200
2023
401
2022
401
ARWU World University rankings is the first world university ranking. It ranks the world's top 1000 colleges and universities based on objective indicator. They look at the number of award-winning (Fields Medals and Nobel Prize) scientists who are located there, how much of their research is cited and referenced around the world, and how much they've contributed to different academic fields. After calculating and comparing these criteria, ARWU ranks the universities accordingly.
Best Global Universities Rankings by U.S. News & World Report
2025
-
2024
623 -97
2023
526
Best Global Universities Rankings by U.S. News & World Report presents all the top universities from the U.S. and 60 other countries around the world. They measure the rate of students going to their second year of studies, as well as the rate of students who graduate. It also asks university representatives on the performance of universities, and evaluates university resources, teacher salaries, graduation rates, student academic achievements and satisfaction. After calculating and comparing these criteria, U.S. News ranks the top international universities accordingly.
Housing services
- base19
- STUWO
- Akademikerhilfe
- home4students
- OeAD
- Wihast
- The Fizz
Library services
University Library and University Archive (UB):
- BOKU:LITsearch
- BOKU Classification- E-Journals- E-Books- Databases
- Interlibrary loan
- Textbook collection consists of about 8.000 items. The books are grouped by subject like in the main reading room. There is one textbook collection located in the Main Library and on in the Special Library BIO.
- Desiderata book
ICT services
- Who are your IT contacts? What are the first important steps? Where can you get more information?
- PCs, servers, accounts, data protection, virus protection, safe handling of emails or phishing information
- The basis for your daily work – emails, files, printing, word processing
- How can I use the internet and services? Via cable, wireless or in one of our pc rooms?
Campus life
- BOKU Türkenschanze
- BOKU Muthgasse
- BOKU Tulln