The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, or Swedish Agricultural University (Swedish: ''Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet'') (SLU) is a

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. Although its head office is located in

Ultuna Ultuna () is a locality in Uppsala Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 449 inhabitants in 2017. Located south of central Uppsala, it hosts the headquarters and main campus of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantb ...

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, the university has several campuses in different parts of Sweden, the other main facilities being Alnarp in

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, Skara, and

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. Unlike other state-owned

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, it is funded through the budget for the Ministry for Rural Affairs. The University was co-founder of the

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(ELLS) which was established in 2001. The university has four faculties: Faculty of

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and

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, Faculty of

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and Agriculture Sciences, Faculty of

Veterinary Medicine Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutri ...

and

Animal Science Animal science is described as "studying the biology of animals that are under the control of humankind". It can also be described as the production and management of farm animals. Historically, the degree was called animal husbandry and the ...

and Faculty of

Forest Sciences Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. Th ...

. SLU had in 2020 3155 full-time staff, 4216 full-time students, 559 research students and 191 professors.

History

The university was formed in 1977 by combining three existing separate colleges for veterinary medicine, forestry and agriculture, as well as some smaller units into one organisation in order to improve the efficiency by sharing resources between departments. At the same time, the Veterinary college and Forestry college were moved from

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to Ultuna, which already was the main campus of the Agricultural college. The locations used by the two relocated colleges are today used by the

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. These colleges had a long history as separate institutions. The Veterinary Institution in Skara was founded in 1775 and was headed by

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, a student of both Carl von Linné and of Claude Bourgelat, who founded the first veterinary college in

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in 1762. From 1821 a new veterinary institution in Stockholm took over the training of veterinarians from Skara. The Institute of Forestry was founded in Stockholm in 1828 to provide higher education to those who had gone through practical forestry schools, and was made into a college 1915. An agricultural institute was founded in Ultuna in 1848 and in Alnarp in 1862, under the supervision of the

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, founded in 1813. These institutes, and the experimental activities conducted by the Academy from 1814, were the basis of the Agricultural College, which was created in 1932.

Academics

The ''Journal of Forest Economics'' () was published by

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in affiliation with the Department of Forest Economics. It was founded by

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. In 2019, the journal was taken over by

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. In the 2020

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, SLU was ranked at 3rd place in the world for the subject Agriculture and Forestry.

Notable alumni

* Professor

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–

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n Minister of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements and former Executive Director of

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History

Academics

Notable alumni

See also