Sociology Home Env. Methodology Home Gender Studies Home General Wageningen Agricultural University and the Centre for Rural Development Sociology have both a national and an international mission in the field of education, reflected in the Dutch and International Masters and Ph.D. degree programmes.
Education is focused on agriculture and rural development, food and the environment.
Altogether, at WAU there are offered 19 Dutch Doctoraal Programmes and 13 International M.Sc. programmes , all of which combine theoretical perspectives with applications in the context of socially-defined problems. WAU is one of the smaller universities in the Netherlands. But at the same time it is the university which has the strongest international orientation. Much education and research is done in cooperation with scientists from other countries, and research funds from international agencies are considerable. During their training, most of the students of the Dutch programmes go abroad for internships.