Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

The Czech University of Life Sciences Prague is a public university of agricultural education and research in Prague, Czech Republic, also known in English as the Czech University of Agriculture in Prague, and it is placed in the 731-740 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.捷克生命科学大学是一所位于捷克共和国布拉格的公立农业教育与研究型大学，英文亦作「Czech University of Agriculture in Prague」，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 731-740 区间。

Its teaching of agriculture began in 1906 at the Czech Technical University, its first agricultural engineers graduated in 1911, and it became an independent institution in 1952 before moving to its purpose-built Suchdol campus in 1966.其农业教学始于 1906 年捷克技术大学内，首批农业工程师于 1911 年毕业；1952 年成为独立院校，1966 年迁入专门建设的苏赫多尔校区。

It offers forty programmes taught in English, of which about fifteen are at bachelor's level and twenty-five at master's level, its OpenAlex record lists 24,153 works and 886,581 citations, and it is 673rd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.该校开设 40 个英语授课项目，其中约 15 个为本科、25 个为硕士层次；其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 24,153 项、被引 886,581 次，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 673。

History

• Studies of agriculture were established at the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1906, giving the later university its academic starting point.农业教学于 1906 年在布拉格捷克技术大学设立，为后来的大学提供了学术起点。

• The first agricultural engineers graduated from those studies in 1911, five years after teaching began.首批农业工程师于 1911 年毕业，距教学开办已过五年。

• In 1920 the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry was established within the Czech Technical University, consolidating agricultural and forestry teaching in one faculty.1920 年，农业与林学院在捷克技术大学内设立，把农业与林业教学集中于同一学院。

• In 1952 the faculty became an independent institution under the name University College of Agriculture in Prague, known by the Czech abbreviation VŠZ.1952 年，该学院成为独立院校，名为布拉格农业高等学校，捷克文缩写为 VŠZ。

• In 1966 the university moved to a newly built campus in Prague-Suchdol, where it has been located ever since.1966 年，该校迁入布拉格苏赫多尔新建的校区，并一直设址于此。

• The Faculty of Forestry, established in 1952, belonged to the Czech Technical University until 1959 and then to the agricultural university until 1964.1952 年设立的林学院在 1959 年之前隶属捷克技术大学，此后至 1964 年隶属农业高等学校。

• In 1964 it became the independent Institute of Forestry Science, a research institute separated from teaching for more than two decades.1964 年，它成为独立的林业科学研究所，与教学分离达二十余年。

• Forestry teaching returned to the university in 1990, when that institute rejoined the agricultural university as its forestry faculty.1990 年，该研究所重新并入农业高等学校成为其林学院，林业教学由此回归。

• The institution adopted its present name, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, in 1995.该校于 1995 年采用现名「布拉格捷克生命科学大学」。

• During communist rule in Czechoslovakia the university was lavishly funded as part of the state's support for collectivised agriculture.在捷克斯洛伐克共产党执政时期，该校作为国家对集体化农业支持的一部分获得充裕经费。

• From 1952 to 1980 the master's degree lasted five years, then four years from 1980 to 1990, before reverting to five years.其硕士学位在 1952 至 1980 年间为五年制，1980 至 1990 年间改为四年制，此后又恢复五年制。

• Since 1993 the university has also offered three-year bachelor's study, aligning it with the two-cycle structure used across central Europe.自 1993 年起，该校还开设三年制本科课程，与中欧通行的两阶段学制接轨。

• The University Farm at Lány was founded in 1960 on a farm that had belonged to the Office of the President of the Czechoslovak Republic.拉尼大学农场于 1960 年在原属捷克斯洛伐克共和国总统办公室的农地上建立。

• The surrounding properties were established around 1850 as part of the Křivoklát Estate, and were purchased by the Czechoslovak state in 1921 together with Lány Castle and its forests.周边产业约于 1850 年作为克日沃克拉特庄园的一部分建立，1921 年连同拉尼城堡及其森林一并由捷克斯洛伐克国家购入。

• Lány Castle and the adjacent forests now serve as a retreat for the President of the Czech Republic, while the farm is used for teaching and research.拉尼城堡与相邻森林现为捷克共和国总统的休养地，农场则用于教学与研究。

• The farm cultivates three thousand hectares of farmland, producing about nine thousand tonnes of grain and two thousand tonnes of oilseed rape a year.该农场耕种三千公顷农田，每年生产约九千吨谷物与两千吨油菜籽。

• As a gene pool it rears original Czech Red cattle, Kladruber horses and Norik horses, breeds of national genetic importance, and also keeps herds of common elands and guanacos for research into domestication and their use as alternative species in temperate extensive farming.作为基因库，该农场饲养捷克红牛、克拉德鲁伯马与诺里克马等具国家遗传价值的品种，并饲养普通大羚羊与羊驼群，研究其驯化以及在温带粗放农业中作为替代物种的利用可能。

• A second farm at Mělník north-east of Prague cultivates eleven hectares of grapevines and produces its own wine, along with apricots, peaches and apples on 4.5 hectares.位于布拉格东北梅尔尼克的第二处农场种植十一公顷葡萄并自产葡萄酒，另在 4.5 公顷土地上种植杏、桃与苹果。

• That farm keeps 1,100 head of cattle, of which 440 are Holsteins producing 9,400 litres of milk a year and eighty are Jerseys producing 5,900 litres.该农场饲养 1,100 头牛，其中 440 头荷斯坦牛年产奶 9,400 升、80 头娟姗牛年产奶 5,900 升。

• It also rears about four thousand pigs producing roughly four hundred tonnes of pork a year, and six hundred thousand chickens processed in its own slaughterhouses.农场还饲养约四千头猪，年产猪肉约四百吨；每年出产六十万只鸡，在其自有屠宰场加工。

• The University Forest Establishment at Kostelec nad Černými lesy comprises a 4,600-hectare forest with a castle, a garden centre, a sawmill and seventy hectares of fishponds.位于黑森林畔科斯特莱茨的大学林场包含 4,600 公顷森林，并设城堡、园艺中心、锯木厂与七十公顷鱼塘。

• A twelve-hectare arboretum was established there in 1954, and the castle can accommodate and cater for about one hundred students.该地于 1954 年建立十二公顷树木园，城堡可供约一百名学生住宿与用餐。

• From 1952 the institution was led by rectors beginning with Vladimír Kosil, and its leadership has continued without interruption to the present.自 1952 年起，该校由校长领导，首任为弗拉迪米尔·科西尔，其领导层延续至今未曾中断。

Academics

• The university offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programmes based on a credit system, with forty programmes taught in English.该校按学分制开设学士、硕士与博士项目，其中 40 个项目以英语授课。

• The Faculty of Environmental Sciences teaches environmental modelling, landscape planning, nature conservation and geosciences.其环境科学学院教授环境建模、景观规划、自然保护与地球科学。

• The Faculty of Economics and Management covers the management of agricultural companies and the economics of rural businesses, including finance, banking, insurance, information technology and regional development.其经济与管理学院涵盖农业企业管理与农村企业经济，包括金融、银行、保险、信息技术与区域发展。

• Tomáš Šubrt has been dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management since 2022.托马什·舒布拉特自 2022 年起担任经济与管理学院院长。

• The Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources teaches crop and animal production, natural resources and the environment, and has been led by Josef Soukup since 2022.其农业生物学、食品与自然资源学院教授作物与畜牧生产、自然资源与环境，院长约瑟夫·索乌库普自 2022 年任职。

• The Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences works on forestry, game management and the timber industry through theoretical and applied research, with Róbert Marušák as dean since 2020.其林业与木材科学学院通过理论与应用研究开展林业、野生动物管理与木材工业研究，罗贝尔特·马鲁沙克自 2020 年任院长。

• Its graduates become industrial engineers working with technology, machinery and manufacturing equipment for agriculture, market gardening and forestry, and Jiří Mašek has been dean since 2018.其毕业生成为面向农业、园艺与林业的技术、机械与制造装备类工业工程师；伊日·马谢克自 2018 年任院长。

• The Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences teaches the agriculture of tropical regions, combining field agronomy with development studies and natural resource management, while the university's own farm, forest and vineyard units make the institution an operator of agricultural enterprises.其热带农业科学学院教授热带地区农业，把田间农学与发展研究、自然资源管理相结合；该校自有的农场、林场与葡萄园则使其本身成为农业产业的经营者。

• The Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, established in 2013 from the former Institute of Tropics and Subtropics, focuses on tropical agriculture, rural development and sustainable natural resource management.其热带农业科学学院由原热带与亚热带研究所于 2013 年转型设立，聚焦热带农业、农村发展与自然资源可持续管理。

• Patrick Van Damme was dean of that faculty from 2021 to 2025, and Hynek Roubík has held the post since 2025.帕特里克·范达姆自 2021 至 2025 年担任该院院长，海内克·罗乌比克自 2025 年起接任。

• The Institute for Education and Consultancy is an independent pedagogical and scientific institution specialising in agricultural and forestry training and consultancy.其教育与咨询研究所是独立的教学科研机构，专司农业与林业培训及咨询。

• A separate Department of Physical Education provides physical training to students across the university.另设独立的体育部，为全校学生提供体育训练。

• The secretary of the Association for European Life Science Universities is located at the university, which also joined the Euroleague for Life Sciences in 2005.欧洲生命科学大学协会的秘书处设于该校；该校并于 2005 年加入「生命科学欧洲联盟」。

• It is also a member of the Biofector project, a European research consortium on bio-effectors for plant nutrition.该校同时是 Biofector 项目成员，该项目是研究植物营养生物促进剂的欧洲研究联盟。

• Research output recorded by OpenAlex stands at 24,153 works and 886,581 citations, concentrated in agricultural science, forestry, environmental science and food science.OpenAlex 记录其研究成果 24,153 项、被引 886,581 次，集中在农业科学、林业、环境科学与食品科学领域。

• Teaching is conducted in Czech and in English, and the university's farm, forest and vineyard holdings serve as practical training sites.其教学以捷克语与英语进行，大学的农场、林场与葡萄园则作为实践教学场所。

Campus

• The main campus is in Prague-Suchdol, in the north of the capital, at approximately 50.08804 degrees north and 14.42076 degrees east, and it has been the university's seat since 1966.主校区位于首都北部的布拉格苏赫多尔，坐标约为北纬 50.08804 度、东经 14.42076 度，自 1966 年起为该校所在地。

• The Suchdol campus was purpose-built for the university and consolidated its faculties on one site outside the historic centre of Prague.苏赫多尔校区为该校专门建设，把各学院集中到布拉格历史城区之外的同一处校址。

• The university's practical facilities extend well beyond Prague, including the farm at Lány and the vineyard estate at Mělník.其教学实践设施远及布拉格之外，包括拉尼农场与梅尔尼克葡萄园。

• The University Forest Establishment at Kostelec nad Černými lesy provides forests, fishponds and a castle used for forestry teaching and student residences.黑森林畔科斯特莱茨的大学林场提供森林、鱼塘与城堡，用于林业教学与学生住宿。

• A twelve-hectare arboretum established in 1954 supports teaching in dendrology and landscape management.1954 年建立的十二公顷树木园，支撑树木学与景观管理教学。

• The Lány farm's three thousand hectares and the Mělník vineyards give the university working agricultural and viticultural enterprises of its own.拉尼农场的三千公顷与梅尔尼克葡萄园，使该校拥有自营的农业与葡萄种植产业。

• The farm's herds of Czech Red cattle and Kladruber horses function as living gene banks alongside their teaching role.农场的捷克红牛与克拉德鲁伯马群在承担教学职能的同时，也起到活体基因库的作用。

• Because the campus sits in a residential district of northern Prague, students live in university halls and in private housing across the city.由于校园位于布拉格北部住宅区，学生在校内宿舍与市内私人房源中居住。

• The Suchdol site is connected to central Prague by the city's public transport network, and the wider university holdings are reached by road.苏赫多尔校址经城市公共交通与布拉格市中心相连，各处校产则以公路通达。

• The university's facilities include lecture halls, laboratories, a library and research greenhouses appropriate to an agricultural institution.其设施包括讲堂、实验室、图书馆以及符合农业院校特点的研究温室。

• Its Suchdol campus stands on a plateau above the Vltava valley, a site chosen in the 1960s to allow later expansion, about seven kilometres north of the centre of Prague.其苏赫多尔校区位于伏尔塔瓦河谷上方的台地，该址在 1960 年代选定以便日后扩展，距布拉格市中心约七公里。

• The Mělník estate lies in the wine-growing region north of Prague, where the university's vines and orchards support viticulture research and practical training in fruit growing.梅尔尼克庄园位于布拉格以北的葡萄酒产区，该校的葡萄与果园在此支撑葡萄栽培研究与果树种植实践教学。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague is placed in the 731-740 band, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，布拉格捷克生命科学大学处于 731-740 区间。此排名以官方榜单为准。

• It stands in the 801-1000 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and is 673rd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 801-1000 区间，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 673。

• It is placed in the 901-1000 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.在软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校处于 901-1000 区间。

• OpenAlex attributes 24,153 works and 886,581 citations to the institution, a substantial output for a specialised agricultural university.OpenAlex 记录该校 24,153 项成果与 886,581 次被引，对一所专精型农业大学而言产出可观。

• Its membership of the Euroleague for Life Sciences and the location of the secretary of the Association for European Life Science Universities on campus underpin its European standing in agricultural research.其「生命科学欧洲联盟」成员身份，以及欧洲生命科学大学协会秘书处设于校内，支撑其在欧洲农业研究领域的地位。

• The university's research strengths are concentrated in agricultural science, forestry, environmental science, food science and tropical agriculture.其研究优势集中于农业科学、林业、环境科学、食品科学与热带农业。

• Its farm and forest holdings of several thousand hectares give it research conditions unusual among European agricultural universities.其数千公顷的农场与林场，使其拥有在欧洲农业大学中不常见的研究条件。

• Participation in the Biofector project connects its plant nutrition research to a European research consortium.参与 Biofector 项目，把其植物营养研究接入欧洲研究联盟。

• Within the Czech Republic it is one of the country's principal agricultural and forestry research institutions, alongside Charles University, Palacký University and the Mendel University in Brno.在捷克国内，它同查理大学、帕拉茨基大学与布尔诺门德尔大学一并属于该国主要的农业与林业研究机构之列。

• Its tropical agriculture faculty gives it a research focus that distinguishes it from purely European agricultural universities.其热带农业学院赋予该校有别于纯欧洲农业院校的研究重心。

Student life

• The university provides practical training through its own farm at Lány, its vineyard estate at Mělník and its forest at Kostelec nad Černými lesy.该校通过拉尼农场、梅尔尼克葡萄园与黑森林畔科斯特莱茨林场开展实践教学。

• The castle at Kostelec accommodates and caters for about one hundred students during forestry field courses.科斯特莱茨的城堡在林业野外课程期间可容纳并供餐约一百名学生。

• Students work with the farm's cattle, pig and poultry enterprises, and with the gene-pool herds of Czech Red cattle and Kladruber horses.学生参与农场的牛、猪与家禽生产，并与捷克红牛与克拉德鲁伯马的基因库种群打交道。

• The Mělník estate, with its eleven hectares of vines and its own wine, involves students in viticulture and fruit growing.拥有十一公顷葡萄与自产葡萄酒的梅尔尼克庄园，使学生参与葡萄栽培与果树种植。

• A separate Department of Physical Education organises sport for all students, an unusual arrangement in which the department stands outside the faculties.独立设置的体育部为全校学生组织体育活动，该部门独立于各学院之外，安排较为特殊。

• The Institute for Education and Consultancy provides continuing education and advisory services to farmers, foresters and the public alongside its teaching role.其教育与咨询研究所除教学外，还面向农民、林业工作者与公众提供继续教育与咨询服务。

• Because the campus is in northern Prague, students combine study with the cultural and sporting life of the Czech capital.由于校园位于布拉格北部，学生把学业与捷克首都的文化与体育生活相结合。

• Study structures have changed with national policy: five-year master's courses until 1980, four-year courses in the 1980s, and three-year bachelor's degrees since 1993.其学制随国家政策变化：1980 年前为五年制硕士，1980 年代改四年制，1993 年起开设三年制本科。

• English-taught programmes attract international students, particularly in tropical agriculture and environmental sciences.其英语授课项目吸引国际学生，尤其在热带农业与环境科学方向。

• Graduates work in Czech and European agriculture, forestry, food production, environmental management and agricultural policy.其毕业生就业于捷克与欧洲的农业、林业、食品生产、环境管理与农业政策领域。

• Students in the forestry faculty spend part of their course at Kostelec nad Černými lesy, where the forest, sawmill and fishponds serve teaching and harvesting.林学院学生部分课程在黑森林畔科斯特莱茨进行，该处的森林、锯木厂与鱼塘既用于教学也用于采伐。

Notable people

• Vladimír Kosil was the first rector of the independent institution, serving from 1952 to 1960.弗拉迪米尔·科西尔是该校独立后的首任校长，任期为 1952 至 1960 年。

• Karel Kudrna led the university from 1960 to 1966, the period in which the decision to build the Suchdol campus was taken.卡雷尔·库德尔纳自 1960 至 1966 年领导该校，其间决定建设苏赫多尔校区。

• Emil Kunz was rector from 1966 to 1970, presiding over the actual move to the new Suchdol campus.埃米尔·昆茨自 1966 至 1970 年任校长，主持了迁入苏赫多尔新校区的实际工作。

• Ctibor Ledl served as rector from 1970 to 1985, the longest term in the university's modern history.茨蒂博尔·莱德尔自 1970 至 1985 年任校长，是该校现代史上任期最长者。

• Jiří Petr led the university from 1990 to 1994, a period of reconstruction after the fall of the communist regime.伊日·彼得自 1990 至 1994 年领导该校，这是共产党政权垮台后的重建时期。

• Jan Hron served twice as rector, from 1994 to 2000 and again from 2003 to 2009, and Josef Kozák held the office from 2000 to 2003.扬·赫龙两度出任校长（1994 至 2000 年、2003 至 2009 年），约瑟夫·科扎克则于 2000 至 2003 年任职。

• Jiří Balík was rector from 2010 to 2018, and Petr Sklenička led the university from 2018 to 2026, when Michal Lošťák took office as rector.伊日·巴利克自 2010 至 2018 年任校长，彼得·斯克莱尼奇卡自 2018 至 2026 年领导该校，其后米哈尔·洛什贾克就任校长。

• Peter Nick, a professor of molecular cell biology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, is counted among the university's alumni.卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院分子细胞生物学教授彼得·尼克，被列为该校校友。

• Pavel Tlustoš, a professor of agrochemistry and plant nutrition, and Manfred G. Raupp, of the Biofector project, are associated with the university's research.农业化学与植物营养学教授帕维尔·特卢斯托什与 Biofector 项目的曼弗雷德·G·劳普，均与该校研究有关。

• Alessandro Piccolo, an Italian soil chemist from the University of Naples, has served as a visiting professor at the university.来自那不勒斯大学的意大利土壤化学家亚历山德罗·皮科洛曾在该校担任访问教授。