Faculty 09 - Agricultural Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, and Environmental Management

FB 09 - Agrarwissenschaften, Ökotrophologie und Umweltmanagement

Agriculture and nutrition have a long tradition at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Safeguarding the worldwide food supply as well as a healthy nutrition are the focus of research and teaching of all disciplines in our faculty. The broad range of topics and issues goes from primary production to food processing on to the development of environment-friendly land use systems and biogeochemical cycles, all discussed and examined from a scientific and economic point of view.

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Facts about the faculty

University	Justus Liebig University Giessen
Programmes	3 programmes · 2 bachelor's, 1 master's
Language of programmes	German — 2 programmes; English — 1 programme
Application	bachelor's until 15.07; master's until 15.06
City	Giessen
Website	http://www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb09

What the faculty's programmes require

The university-wide requirements are complemented by the faculty's own — they are missed most often, because the university page does not list them.

German for the German-taught programmes

For 2 German-taught programmes: DSH, TestDaF or telc C1 Hochschule — before you apply, not after.

English B2

For 1 English-taught programme; the accepted tests (IELTS, TOEFL) are on the programme page.

About the faculty

Global Nutrition: Against the background of globalization and world trade the question of safeguarding international food supply becomes increasingly important for research. Both on the micro as well as on the macro level strategies are developed to overcome hunger and poverty.

Agrarbiotechnology: Scientific research is carried out with state-of-the-art methods to develop healthy, high-yielding and stress resistant crops. Also the breeding and feeding of a strong and healthy livestock is part of this discipline.

Environmantal and Resource Management: How will it be possible despite interventions in nature by livestock and plant production to use the same in a gentle and sustainable way as well as their biotic and abiotic resources?

Agribusiness: The supply of consumers with sufficient and high-quality food at the right time and place is the focus of the agribusiness experts’ investigations. All private economic activities and their economic political management involved in accomplishing this complex task are carefully studied and analyzed.

Nutrition and Health: Research activities in this area concentrate on the physiological effects of a healthy nutrition, on the development of functional food and the analysis and on the evaluation of biochemical processes within the human organism.

Consumer Protection: Today, food safety and quality are more important than ever before. Therefore, in order to protect the consumer specific information needs to be edited and questions about how to secure the offer of healthy nutrition through the private and public sector have to be discussed.

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Questions about admission to the faculty

In which language are the programmes taught?

German — 2 programmes; English — 1 programme.

When do I need to apply?

Bachelor's until 15.07; master's until 15.06. Deadlines differ between programmes — check the programme page.

Do I apply to the faculty or to a programme?

To a programme: requirements, language and deadline are set per programme, and the faculty's admission committee assesses the application.

Will you get in with your grades at this faculty?

We will convert your certificate to the German scale and compare it with the committee's requirements, including subject requirements.

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