Czech University of Life Sciences Prague - Faculties and Institutes

Faculties and Institutes

• The Faculty of Economics and Management educates specialists in the management of all kinds of agricultural companies, managers and economists operating in rural and non-urban businesses specialized in finance, banking, insurance, IT, trade, rural and regional development and in other services for the entire agrifood complex.
  • Departments of the Faculty: Management; Agricultural Economics; Business and Finance; Economic Theories; Information Engineering; Information Technologies; Operations and Systems Analysis; Statistics; Humanities; Law; Psychology; Languages.
  • Dean of the Faculty Prof. Ing. Miroslav Svatos CSc. (2003- ongoing)

• The Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources educates to find career opportunities in farms, co-operatives, the food-industry, all types of agricultural services, landscape and agri-ecology management. The courses cover all traditional fields of Crop and animal production, natural resources and the environment.
  • Departments of the Faculty: Agroecology and Biometeorology; Agro-Environmental Chemistry and Plant Nutrition; Botany and Plant Physiology; Genetics and Breeding; Chemistry; Special Animal Husbandry; Microbiology, Nutrition and Dietetics; Crop Protection; Soil Science and Geology; Forage Crops and Grasslands;Plant production; Quality of Agricultural Products; Veterinary Sciences; Horticulture and Landscape Architecture; Zoology and Fish Farming.
  • Experiment Stations: Troja - Gardening; Uhrineves - Plant Production; Cerveny Ujezd - Plant Production, Forage Production and Plant Nutrition; Ploskov - Pig Breeding.
  • Dean of the Faculty Prof. Ing. Pavel Tlustoš CSc. (2010-ongoing)

• The Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences educates students for all fields of forestry, game management, and the timber industry. The Faculty works on theoretical and applied research in the field of forestry, wood industry and management of wild animals.
  • Departments of the Faculty: Forest-Culture; Dendrology and Forest Tree Breeding; Forest Management; Forest Protection and Game Management; Forest Harvesting; Wood Processing; Forestry Economics and Management; Breeding Station Truba and Arboretum Kostelec.
  • Dean of the Faculty Prof. Ing. Marek Turcani PhD. (2011-ongoing)

• The graduates of the Faculty of Engineering are industrial engineers who deal with technologies for processing agricultual products and manage operational mechanical equipment and manufacturing devices for all branches of agriculture, market gardening, forestry and related branches.
  • Departments of the Faculty: Machinery Application; Mechanics and Machine Engineering; Mathematics; Information Technologies Applications; Electrical Engineering and Automation; Physics; Vehicles and Road Transport; Technological Equipment of Buildings; Machine Quality and Reliability; Farm Machinery; Materials and Engineering Technology.
  • Dean of the Faculty Prof. Ing. Vladimir Jurca CSc. (2009-ongoing)

• The Institute of Tropics and Subtropics offers education for both Czech and foreign students focusing on the tropical and subtropical zones, animal production, mechanisation of agriculture, taking into account local conditions and the local-economy, and deals with agricultural management.
  • Departments of the Institute: Engineering, Economics and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics; Tropical and Subtropical Crops and Agroforestry; Animal Breeding and Food Proceesing in the Tropics and Subtropics.
  • Director of the Institute Assoc. Prof: Ing. Jan Banout PhD. (2012-ongoing)

• The Institute for Education and Consultancy is an independent pedagogical and scientific institution which covers the whole university. It specialises in agricultural and forestry training and providing consultant services.

• The Department of Physical Education is an independent department of the Czech University of Agriculture and provides compulsatory as well as volunteer physical training to students of all University faculties within their study programmes, as well as winter and summer courses both in the Czech Republic and abroad.