Sustainability and interdisciplinarity constitute the starting point for the solution of complex issues related to the use of natural and human resources for agricultural and horticultural production in mountain territories and the transformation of raw materials into final food products.

The students enrolled at our faculty are part of a unique study environment characterised by many outdoor study activities in fields, farms, and forests. Moreover, students can participate in unusual as well as very structured learning experiences in the faculty’s outstanding high-tech laboratories. Finally, students benefit from close interaction with world-class lecturers and access to other state-of-the-art facilities such as our lecture halls and library.

The opportunity to take part in exchange and international cooperation programmes with universities all over the world offers students, researchers and lecturers the ideal context to pursue their professional and education goals in academia.

The faculty ranked among the top 500 faculties worldwide in the 2023 Times Higher Education Life Sciences subject ranking and as fifth out of more than 40 Italian departments/faculties of agricultural sciences.