The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences represents one of the nine main teaching and research areas at Aarhus University. The faculty has seven departments, one bachelor degree programme, four master degree programmes and a PhD school.

The faculty has approx. 1000 members of staff, approx. 450 of which are scientific staff and 550 technical/admin staff. Geographically, employees are spread across ten very differently sized units throughout Denmark.

The faculty has research centres in Aarslev , Foulum , Flakkebjerg and Sorgenfri in addition to four research stations and a research unit located at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen. The Student Affairs Office is located at Trøjborg in Aarhus.

It is the ambition of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences to maintain, develop and communicate its acquired knowledge to ensure a sustainable agriculture and a production of high-quality foods.

The turnover of the faculty is approx. DKK 750 million per annum (2009), with more than 90% of this being related to research and research-based public service consultancy. The turnover and thus the number of employees is expected to rise over the coming years, and it is the ambition of the faculty to focus and develop its research and to remain one of the strongest agricultural research environments in Europe.

The development of the teaching at both PhD and master level is given high priority and it is the aim of the faculty to award at least 70 PhD degrees per year.

In addition to management and administrative functions, a number of supporting units have been established to undertake library and IT functions and information and documentation services. Look under Faculty Secretariat for more information.

DJF thus has advanced laboratories and research facilities, including animal houses, a biogas research plant, greenhouses and semi-field facilities at its disposal. See examples of the facilities here.

This is in addition to the approx. 1300 ha farmland used for research, experiments and feed production.