Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

Established 1977
Type Public University
Rector Lisa Sennerby Forsse
Staff 3,000
Undergraduates 3,500
Doctoral students 770
Location Uppsala, Alnarp, Umeå, Sweden
Website http://www.slu.se/

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences or Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet is a university in Sweden. Although its head office is locaded in Ultuna, Uppsala, the university has several campuses in different parts of Sweden, the other main facilities being Alnarp in Lomma Municipality, Skara, and Umeå. It is, unlike other state owned universities in Sweden, funded through the budget for the Ministry of Agriculture.

The university has four faculties: Faculty of Landscape Planning, Horticulture and Agricultural Science, Faculty of Natural Resources and Agriculture Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science and Faculty of Forest Sciences. As of 2005, it has approximately 3,000 employees, 3,500 undergraduate students and 770 postgraduate students.

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