Frederiksberg campus has its basis in the life sciences disciplines.
Over time, Frederiksberg Campus had several names. KVL: The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, LIFE, and now the campus part of SCIENCE, the natural and life sciences faculty.
Overall, covered the faculty's research and education throughout the chain from farm to fork to health and welfare, and it was just the collection of all links in this chain that enabled the holistic, nationally as well as internationally regarded as one of faculty strengths.
Overall contemplation example. in relation to the exploitation of natural resources, food production, health and disease, as well as politics and economics was also one of the qualities that had made the faculty of one of the strongest players in research and education related to developing countries.
Faculty had until the merger 1.1.2012 approx. 3,500 students, of which 500 were PhD students. The 24 programs påbachelor and graduate leading to titles such as veterinary, agricultural, forestry and horticulture, landscape architect, landscape manager, agricultural economist, food engineering and graduate and MSc. in Agricultural Development, biology, biotechnology, environmental chemistry, parasitology and manufacturing development (PAT) as well as in clinical and human nutrition. Approximately 15 percent of the faculty's students came from abroad, and about half of all teaching faculty was in English.
The majority of the faculty's 1,800 employees had their days on the faculty main campus in Frederiksberg. This is also where the former Life Sciences Library (BVFB), former Danish Veterinary and Agricultural Library (DVJB) is, as an integral part of the faculty. The architects Gottlieb Bindesbøll, Martin Borch, Steen Eiler Rasmussen and Mogens Koch accounts for the majority of the building complex at the University of Copenhagen's Frederiksberg Campus, which includes the former Copenhagen Sick Home on Rolighedsvej of HC Forwarding. In the 1990s, with an investment of approx. 550 million. £ extensive new buildings, but the faculty listed garden and original buildings resemble themselves from the time they were established.
In addition to its Frederiksberg Campus Faculty had also previously had a Botanical Garden in Charlottenlund (as in the spring of 2008 were transferred to the National Forest and Nature Agency), which study and research activities have moved to the larger collection of trees and shrubs in our collection. In addition, the Faculty had Skovskolen in Nødebo and frugttræssamling on Pometet in the outskirts where there is also experimental farms as well as a newly built hospital for large animals.