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We are the green department

Students at the Department of Agriculture, Ecotrophology and Landscape Development in Bernburg often swap the lecture hall for the great outdoors. Campus Bernburg's green campus with 55 hectares of experimental fields, numerous project gardens and experimental facilities as well as state-of-the-art laboratories in the field of life sciences offers excellent experimental sites for teaching and applied research in Agriculture, Ecotrophology, Nature Conservation and Landscape Architecture.

In the project and practice-oriented degree program, students not only acquire knowledge and skills for their profession, but are also prepared to solve future tasks in the digital age in an interdisciplinary manner. The development and credits of innovations in agricultural production, product development, securing biodiversity or the design of urban and landscape spaces are important focal points. A hallmark of the Department is its internationality, which also makes the green campus very colorful.

Applied and transfer-oriented research focuses primarily on the field of life sciences, which defines the university's profile. Interdisciplinary work is carried out with other departments on important future tasks that are of considerable importance for people's immediate living environment.

The green campus with its facilities and opportunities also offers ideal prerequisites for sports and leisure activities.

Practice-oriented studies and applied research

Studying at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences is highly application-oriented. Students are prepared for a successful career as a specialist and manager in a deliberately broad-based, practical education using real company projects. State-of-the-art laboratories, pilot plants and workshops are available for this purpose. As a rule, the final theses deal scientifically with specific problems from operational practice.

Internationality is a key focus at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. With 2600 foreign students from 108 countries, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences has the highest proportion of foreign students of any German university of applied sciences. This joint study program creates good prerequisites for later international cooperation in professional life.

Anhalt University of Applied Sciences is one of the most active research universities of applied sciences in Germany. The research projects carried out together with partners in the field are application and transfer-oriented. This not only provides effective support for small and medium-sized companies in their R&D work, this third-party funded research also offers numerous graduates the opportunity to successfully enter professional practice.

In contrast to the hectic life in large cities, studying and student life at the three locations of Anhalt University of Applied Sciences is organized over short distances. Sports and leisure activities offer students a good opportunity to develop their social skills.

University town with a scientific tradition

Bernburg has been a traditional location for plant research since the founding of the Ducal-Anhalt Experimental Station in 1880. Especially at the Bernburg-Strenzfeld site, at the foothills of the internationally renowned Magdeburger Börde, a very well-known research facility for cultivated plants was established after the Second World War. Since 1961, this district has been a university location for Agriculture and the processing industry. Today, the Bernburg department of the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, together with the State Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture and the International Plant Cultivation Center of the German Agricultural Society, offer ideal prerequisites for "green" disciplines.

The town of Bernburg itself is over 1000 years old and has a rich history. The Renaissance castle, also known as the "Pearl of Anhalt", rises high above the Saale. In the old town, the Servite monastery, built in 1308, was reactivated by the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. In addition to education, this gem also enlivens cultural life in the town of Bernburg with the students' monastery festival and the monastery Christmas.

With the current establishment of a teaching and experimental vineyard, the university is bringing the old tradition of viticulture in the lower Saale valley back to Bernburg.