Nieuws - 25 januari 2001

Sharp increase in international student numbers

The number of international students has risen by 57 percent this year. 231 students enroled in the 14 Master programmes offered by Wageningen University, compared to 147 in 1999. This is a record year for the university: never before has it attracted so many international students. 1999 on the other hand was a relatively bad year for the university. After years of steadily increasing international student numbers, there was a drop from 167 students in 1998 to 148 last year. The university aims to further increase the numbers to about 300 by 2002.

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STUDENT ENROLMENTS

1999 2000

S21 Agricultural Economics & Management19 29

S19 Animal Science 11 6

S20 Aquaculture 16 15

S15 Biotechnology 6 17

S12 Crop Science 16 25

S16 Ecological Agriculture 3 9

S22 Environmental Sciences 28 26

S26 Food Studies (joint Masters) - 12

S17 Geo-information Science 4 17

S24 Leisure and Environment 14 15

S11 Management of Agr. Knowl.Sys. 18 16

S10 Soil and Water 6 20

S13 Tropical Forestry 6 5

S23 Urban Environmental Management - 19

Total 147 231