Estonian University of Life Sciences

The Estonian University of Life Sciences, known in Estonian as Eesti Maaülikool and usually shortened to EMÜ, is a public university in Tartu whose teaching and research concentrate on agriculture, forestry, veterinary medicine, landscape architecture and the sustainable management of natural resources.爱沙尼亚生命科学大学（爱沙尼亚语：Eesti Maaülikool，简称 EMÜ）是位于塔尔图的公立大学，教学与研究集中于农业、林业、兽医学、风景园林与自然资源的可持续管理。

Its academic lineage runs back to the chair of agriculture established at the University of Tartu in 1802, while the independent institution dates from 1951, when the Soviet authorities detached two Tartu faculties and turned them into the Estonian Agricultural Academy.其学术谱系可追溯至 1802 年塔尔图大学设立的农学教席，而作为独立院校则始于 1951 年，当时苏联当局把塔尔图大学的两个系分离出来，组建爱沙尼亚农业科学院。

The university is Estonia's fourth-largest public institution of higher education and the only one whose profile is built around the sustainable use of natural resources, a niche reflected in the QS 2027 world ranking band of 1201-1400 and in some 8,249 works with 430,795 citations indexed by OpenAlex.该校是爱沙尼亚第四大公立高等教育机构，也是该国唯一以自然资源可持续利用为办学定位的大学，这一特色体现在 2027 年 QS 世界排名 1201-1400 区间，以及 OpenAlex 收录的约 8,249 项成果与 430,795 次引用上。

History

• The institutional story begins in 1632, when King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden founded the Academy of Dorpat, the forerunner of the University of Tartu, and the chancellor Johan Skytte used the opening ceremony to argue that even Estonian peasants should share in the watering springs of educational wealth.校史的开端在 1632 年，瑞典国王古斯塔夫二世·阿道夫创办多尔帕特学院，即塔尔图大学的前身，校监约翰·斯屈特在开学典礼上主张，就连爱沙尼亚的农民也应分享教育财富的活水。

• That remark is conventionally treated as the first statement of an agricultural-education mission in Estonia, although formal teaching in the field waited almost two centuries for the reopening of the university in 1802.这句话历来被视为爱沙尼亚农业教育使命的最早表述，不过该领域的正式教学还要等到近两个世纪之后，即 1802 年塔尔图大学重新开办之时。

• In 1802 a chair of agriculture was established at the reopened University of Tartu, with Johann Wilhelm Krause as its first professor, and agronomy was taught first within the Faculty of Philosophy and later within the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics.1802 年重新开办的塔尔图大学设立农学教席，由约翰·威廉·克劳泽担任首位教授，农学先隶属哲学系，后来划归物理数学系。

• The Tartu school of agriculture acquired a reputation across the Russian Empire and Europe, drawing students from the Baltic provinces and from the Russian interior to lectures, trial plots and experimental stations.塔尔图的农业学派在俄罗斯帝国与欧洲范围内赢得声誉，把波罗的海各省乃至俄国内地的学生吸引到课堂、试验田与实验站。

• When the University of Tartu reopened in 1919 as an Estonian-language institution, a Faculty of Agriculture was created with departments of agronomy and forestry, and experimental stations and trial plots were attached to it so that students could carry out research themselves.1919 年塔尔图大学以爱沙尼亚语大学的身分重新开办，校内设立农学系，下设农艺与林业两个教研室，并附设实验站与试验田，让学生能够亲自动手做研究。

• A Faculty of Veterinary Science was built on the older Tartu Veterinary Institute, and by the 1930s the two faculties formed the strongest concentration of agricultural and veterinary science in the Baltic states.兽医学系以更早的塔尔图兽医学院为基础建立，到 1930 年代，这两个系已构成波罗的海国家中实力最强的农业与兽医学教研集群。

• The Second World War and the Soviet occupation that followed disrupted this arrangement, and in 1951 the authorities separated the two faculties from the university and combined them into the Estonian Agricultural Academy.第二次世界大战及随后的苏联占领打乱了这一格局，1951 年当局把这两个系从大学中分离出来，合并组建爱沙尼亚农业科学院。

• The new academy was subordinated directly to the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture and trained agronomists, animal breeders, engineers and specialists in the electrification of large farms for the collective and state farms of the Estonian SSR.新学院直接隶属于苏联农业部，为爱沙尼亚苏维埃社会主义共和国的集体农庄与国营农场培养农艺师、畜牧师、工程师以及大型农场电气化方面的专门人才。

• Richard Antons served as its first rector from 1951 to 1954, and Minna Klement, who led the academy from 1954 to 1969, was the first woman to head the institution.理查德·安东斯于 1951 年至 1954 年出任首任院长，明娜·克莱门特则在 1954 年至 1969 年间执掌学院，是该机构历史上第一位女性领导人。

• Arnold Rüütel, rector from 1969 to 1977, later became chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR and then President of Estonia from 2001 to 2006.1969 年至 1977 年任院长的阿诺德·吕特尔，后来出任爱沙尼亚苏维埃社会主义共和国最高苏维埃主席团主席，并于 2001 年至 2006 年担任爱沙尼亚总统。

• Nikolai Koslov headed the academy from 1977 to 1988, a period in which the teaching farms and the research institutes on the edge of Tartu were expanded to serve large-scale Soviet agriculture.尼古拉·科斯洛夫于 1977 年至 1988 年领导学院，这一时期塔尔图城郊的教学农场与研究所不断扩建，以服务于大规模经营的苏联农业。

• Olev Saveli became rector in 1988 and led the institution through the Singing Revolution, the restoration of independence in 1991 and the first difficult years of market reform.奥列夫·萨维利于 1988 年接任院长，带领学院经历歌唱革命、1991 年独立恢复以及市场改革最初几年的艰难岁月。

• In 1991 the academy was renamed the Estonian Agricultural University (Eesti Põllumajandusülikool) and restructured to fit a countryside where kolkhozes and sovkhozes were being dissolved and private farms were being re-established.1991 年学院更名为爱沙尼亚农业大学（Eesti Põllumajandusülikool），并按农村形势重组：集体农庄与国营农场正在解散，家庭农场重新建立。

• New specialities followed the changes in Estonian agriculture and forestry, among them environmental protection, landscape architecture, landscape protection and preservation, applied hydrobiology, environmental economics and natural resources management.随着爱沙尼亚农业与林业的转型，一批新专业相继开设，包括环境保护、风景园林、景观保护与保存、应用水生生物学、环境经济学与自然资源管理。

• Mait Klaassen was rector from 1993 to 1998, Henn Elmet from 1998 to 2002, and Alar Karis from 2003 to 2007, a decade in which the university aligned its degrees with the Bologna process and began teaching in English.迈特·克拉森于 1993 年至 1998 年任校长，亨恩·埃尔梅特于 1998 年至 2002 年接任，阿拉尔·卡里斯于 2003 年至 2007 年执掌校务，这十年间学校按博洛尼亚进程调整学位体系并开始用英语授课。

• Estonia's accession to the European Union in 2004 pushed the institution to redefine itself, and in 2005 it adopted the name Estonian University of Life Sciences, a change intended to signal a broader remit than farming alone.2004 年爱沙尼亚加入欧盟，促使学校重新界定自身定位，2005 年它改用爱沙尼亚生命科学大学这一校名，用意在于表明其职责远不止于农业。

• At the end of 2004 the university still had six faculties and eight institutes, among them the Estonian Agribiocentre, the plant biotechnology institute EVIKA, the Forest Research Institute and the Polli Institute of Horticulture.到 2004 年底，学校仍设有六个学院与八个研究所，其中包括爱沙尼亚农业生物中心、植物生物技术研究所 EVIKA、林业研究所以及波利园艺研究所。

• Mait Klaassen returned as rector in 2008 and served until 2022, the longest tenure of any rector since 1951, while the university consolidated its institutes and strengthened doctoral training.迈特·克拉森于 2008 年再次出任校长并任职至 2022 年，是 1951 年以来任期最长的一位校长，任内学校整合了各研究所并加强了博士培养。

• A structural reform took effect on 1 January 2022, when the faculties disappeared and teaching and research were reorganised into three institutes, one for agriculture and the environment, one for forestry and engineering and one for veterinary medicine and animal science.一项结构性改革于 2022 年 1 月 1 日生效，学院建制取消，教学与研究重组为三个研究所，分别覆盖农业与环境、林业与工程、兽医与动物科学。

• Ülle Jaakma, an animal reproduction scientist, took office as rector in 2023 and has continued the institute-based model while expanding the university's role in bioeconomy and climate policy.动物繁殖学专家于勒·亚克马于 2023 年就任校长，延续以研究所为单位的建制，同时扩大大学在生物经济与气候政策领域的作用。

• In 2019 the university marked a century of higher agricultural education in Estonia, counting from the Faculty of Agriculture of 1919 rather than from the academy of 1951.2019 年学校纪念爱沙尼亚高等农业教育一百周年，纪年从 1919 年的农学系算起，而不是从 1951 年建立的学院算起。

Academics

• Since 1 January 2022 the university has been organised into three institutes, the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the Institute of Forestry and Engineering and the Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences.自 2022 年 1 月 1 日起，学校按三个研究所组织教学与科研，即农业与环境科学研究所、林业与工程研究所、兽医与动物科学研究所。

• The Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences covers soil science, crop production, plant protection, horticulture, landscape architecture, environmental protection and rural economics.农业与环境科学研究所涵盖土壤学、作物生产、植物保护、园艺学、风景园林、环境保护与农村经济学。

• The Institute of Forestry and Engineering combines forestry, forest management and wood technology with agricultural engineering, rural energy systems and the machinery used in precision farming.林业与工程研究所把林业、森林经营与木材工艺同农业工程、农村能源系统以及精准农业所用的机械结合起来。

• The Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences teaches veterinary medicine, animal breeding, animal nutrition and animal health, and it runs the clinical training that underpins the veterinary degree.兽医与动物科学研究所承担兽医学、动物育种、动物营养与动物卫生的教学，并负责支撑兽医学位培养的临床训练。

• Degrees follow the Bologna structure of a three-year bachelor's, a two-year master's and a four-year doctorate, with veterinary medicine taught as an integrated six-year programme that leads directly to a professional qualification.学位体系遵循博洛尼亚模式，即三年制学士、两年制硕士与四年制博士，兽医学则采用六年制一体化培养，毕业后直接取得执业资格。

• Doctoral candidates are trained within national doctoral schools in agriculture, forestry and veterinary science, and they publish in the university's own peer-reviewed journals as well as in international titles.博士生在农业、林业与兽医学领域的国家级博士生院中接受训练，其成果既发表在校内同行评审期刊上，也投向国际刊物。

• The university publishes Agronomy Research, an international journal of crop and soil science, and Forestry Studies, known in Estonian as Metsanduslikud Uurimused, which carries Baltic forestry research.学校出版国际作物与土壤科学期刊《农学研究》，以及爱沙尼亚语名为 Metsanduslikud Uurimused 的《林业研究》，后者刊载波罗的海地区的林业研究成果。

• Research priorities include climate-smart agriculture, forest carbon accounting, food safety, animal health and welfare, nature conservation and the governance of rural landscapes.研究重点包括气候智慧型农业、森林碳核算、食品安全、动物健康与福利、自然保护以及乡村景观治理。

• About 8,249 works and 430,795 citations are attributed to the university in OpenAlex, with the highest citation counts in plant ecophysiology, forestry, soil ecology and veterinary science.OpenAlex 将约 8,249 项成果与 430,795 次引用归入该校名下，其中引用最集中的领域是植物生理生态学、林业、土壤生态学与兽医学。

• The veterinary clinic and the animal hospital function as a teaching hospital, and the university is the only institution in Estonia that trains veterinarians.兽医诊所与动物医院兼具教学医院职能，而该校是爱沙尼亚唯一培养兽医的机构。

• Admission to bachelor's programmes rests on the state examinations and the school-leaving certificate, with additional entrance tests or interviews for veterinary medicine, landscape architecture and some engineering programmes.本科录取以国家统一考试与中学毕业证书为依据，兽医学、风景园林以及部分工程类专业还设有额外的入学测试或面试。

• Teaching is mainly in Estonian, but several master's and doctoral programmes in agriculture, forestry and veterinary science are taught in English and recruit students from Asia, Africa and neighbouring Baltic states.教学主要以爱沙尼亚语进行，但农业、林业与兽医学的若干硕士与博士项目以英语授课，并从亚洲、非洲与波罗的海邻国招收学生。

• The university library, housed in the main building complex, keeps a specialist collection in agriculture, forestry, food science and veterinary medicine and provides access to the major international abstracting databases.大学图书馆设在主楼建筑群内，收藏农业、林业、食品科学与兽医学的专业文献，并提供主要国际文摘数据库的访问权限。

• Long-term field experiments at Rõhu and other trial sites give students and staff access to data series that in some cases run back several decades, a resource that few small universities can match.位于勒胡等地点的长期田间试验为学生与教师提供了可回溯数十年的数据序列，这是少数小型大学才具备的资源。

• Exchange and research cooperation run through Erasmus+, Nordplus and the BOVA network, and joint supervision with Nordic universities is common in forestry and animal science.交流与科研合作通过 Erasmus+、Nordplus 与 BOVA 网络开展，林业与动物科学领域与北欧大学联合指导博士生的情况相当普遍。

• A comparatively small academic staff, including members of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, supports a student body in the low thousands in which master's and doctoral students form an unusually large share.规模相对精简的教师队伍中包含爱沙尼亚科学院院士，所支撑的学生总数在数千人量级，其中硕士生与博士生所占比例异常之高。

Campus

• The university is an urban institution rather than a campus in the American sense, its buildings occupying a compact block on Kreutzwaldi Street a few minutes' walk from Tartu's old town and the left bank of the Emajõgi river.这是一所城市型大学，而非美国式的大校园，校舍集中在克鲁茨瓦尔德街一带，步行几分钟即达塔尔图老城与埃马约吉河左岸。

• Kreutzwaldi 1a serves as the main building and houses the rectorate, the largest lecture theatres and the university library, which holds a specialist collection in agriculture, forestry, food science and veterinary medicine.克鲁茨瓦尔德街 1a 号是主楼，校部、最大的阶梯教室与大学图书馆都设在这里，馆藏以农业、林业、食品科学与兽医学为特色。

• The veterinary clinic on the same street is a teaching hospital that also treats private patients, and it gives students of veterinary medicine their clinical rotations in small animal, equine and production animal practice.同一条街上的兽医诊所是一所也接诊私人畜主的教学医院，兽医专业学生在此完成小动物、马匹与生产动物的临床轮转。

• Student residences stand within the same neighbourhood, so most students reach lectures on foot, and the university's sports hall and canteen are shared with the surrounding district.学生宿舍就在同一街区，多数学生步行即可上课，大学的体育馆与食堂也与周边街区共用。

• Off-campus units extend the footprint far beyond Tartu, most visibly the Polli Horticultural Research Centre at Karksi-Nuia in Viljandi County, where apple and berry breeding has been carried out since 1945.校外机构使学校的足迹远远超出塔尔图，最显眼的是维尔扬迪县卡尔克西-努亚的波利园艺研究中心，当地自 1945 年起持续开展苹果与浆果育种。

• EVIKA, the plant biotechnology institute at Saku near Tallinn, brought tissue-culture laboratories and a national potato and seed-potato programme into the university during the reorganisations of the 2000s.位于塔林附近萨库的植物生物技术研究所 EVIKA，在 2000 年代的机构重组中把组织培养实验室与全国马铃薯及种薯计划并入大学。

• Experimental fields and trial plots near Tartu, including the Rõhu centre, support long-term crop rotation and fertiliser experiments that supply data for both teaching and national agricultural policy.塔尔图近郊的试验田与试验小区，包括勒胡中心，支撑着长期轮作与施肥试验，为教学与国家农业政策提供数据。

• Tartu itself, about 180 kilometres south-east of Tallinn, is Estonia's second city and its academic capital, with a student population large enough to shape the rental market, the bus network and the nightlife of the centre.塔尔图位于塔林东南约 180 公里，是爱沙尼亚第二大城市与学术之都，庞大的学生人口足以影响市中心的租房市场、公交线路与夜生活。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university sits in the 1201-1400 band, the shared interval used for institutions placed just outside the individually numbered positions.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列 1201-1400 区间，这一并列区间用于安置紧接在单独编号名次之后的院校。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it in the 1201-1400 band as well, a result that reflects its small size and specialised publication profile rather than any collapse in research quality.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名同样将其列入 1201-1400 区间，这一结果反映的是学校规模小、发文领域专精，而非研究水准的塌陷。

• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027 it is ranked 1,569th, a position driven largely by bibliometric indicators and by its comparatively narrow subject range.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单中，该校排名第 1,569 位，这一位置主要由文献计量指标以及相对狭窄的学科覆盖面决定。

• It does not appear in the main table of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, a common outcome for specialised institutions that produce few papers in the natural-science fields the ranking weights most heavily.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，这对专精型院校而言并不罕见，因为该榜最看重的自然科学领域论文产出并非其强项。

• Its strongest international showing has come in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for Agriculture and Forestry, where it was placed 37th in 2023, 45th in 2024 and 93rd in 2025.其最亮眼的国际表现出现在 QS 世界大学学科排名的农业与林业学科，2023 年位列第 37 位，2024 年第 45 位，2025 年第 93 位。

• Research output is modest in absolute terms but concentrated, with about 8,249 works and 430,795 citations in OpenAlex and the heaviest citation flows in forestry, soil science, plant physiology and veterinary epidemiology.以绝对数量衡量，科研产出并不庞大，但相当集中：OpenAlex 收录约 8,249 项成果与 430,795 次引用，引用流最大的方向是林业、土壤学、植物生理学与兽医流行病学。

• The university belongs to the BOVA University Network, which links agriculture, forestry and veterinary faculties around the Baltic Sea, and it takes part in Nordplus and Erasmus+ exchanges with Nordic and Baltic partners.学校是 BOVA 大学网络的成员，该网络联结波罗的海周边的农业、林业与兽医院系，学校还参与同北欧及波罗的海伙伴的 Nordplus 与 Erasmus+ 交流。

• Nationally it holds a monopoly in veterinary education, since it offers the only veterinary medicine degree in Estonia, and it is the main supplier of agronomists and foresters to the ministry responsible for rural affairs and to the State Forest Management Centre.在国内，它垄断兽医教育，因为爱沙尼亚唯一的兽医学学位由该校颁发，同时它也是农村事务主管部门与国家森林管理中心农艺师与林业人才的主要来源。

• Its rectors have twice moved from the campus to the presidency of the republic, first Arnold Rüütel and later Alar Karis, a record that gives the institution an unusual weight in Estonian public life.该校校长两次从校园走进共和国总统府，先是阿诺德·吕特尔，后来是阿拉尔·卡里斯，这一纪录使该校在爱沙尼亚公共生活中拥有不同寻常的分量。

Student life

• The university has no Latin motto in everyday use, and its public identity rests instead on the statutory mission of ensuring the sustainable use of natural resources and balanced rural development.学校日常并不使用拉丁语校训，其公共形象更多建立在章程所定的使命之上，即确保自然资源的可持续利用与乡村的均衡发展。

• The student council, the Üliõpilasesindus, represents students on the university council and runs the allocation of dormitory places, the buddy scheme for exchange students and the annual student calendar.学生自治组织 Üliõpilasesindus 在校务委员会中代表学生，负责宿舍床位分配、交换生结对计划以及年度学生活动日程。

• Residence halls on and around Kreutzwaldi Street house a large share of the student body, and the shared kitchens and corridors are where much of the informal contact between Estonian and international students happens.克鲁茨瓦尔德街及其周边的学生宿舍容纳了相当比例的学生，共用厨房与走廊是爱沙尼亚学生与国际学生日常交往的主要场所。

• Every spring the students join the Tartu Student Days, a city-wide festival whose processions, concerts and boat trips on the Emajõgi date back to the interwar republic and were revived after 1991.每年春天学生都会参加塔尔图学生节，这一全城节庆的游行、音乐会与埃马约吉河泛舟可追溯至两次大战之间的共和国时期，并于 1991 年后恢复。

• Sport is organised through the university's sports club, whose teams compete in the championships of the Estonian Academic Sports Federation in basketball, volleyball, orienteering and cross-country running.体育活动由大学体育俱乐部组织，其队伍在爱沙尼亚大学生体育联合会的篮球、排球、定向越野与越野跑锦标赛中参赛。

• Practical field courses take cohorts to Polli, to the trial fields near Tartu and to forest holdings in southern Estonia, and these weeks away are remembered by graduates as the social core of an EMÜ degree.实践性的野外课程把学生带到波利、塔尔图近郊的试验田以及爱沙尼亚南部的林场，毕业生常把这几周视作本校求学经历中最重要的社交时光。

• International students, who come mainly through Erasmus+ and bilateral agreements in agriculture and forestry, have their own orientation week and are paired with Estonian students for the first semester.国际学生主要经 Erasmus+ 以及农业与林业领域的双边协议前来，学校为他们安排专门的迎新周，并在第一学期与爱沙尼亚学生结对。

• Graduation is marked by a ceremony in Tartu and by the informal alumni gatherings that keep veterinary and forestry cohorts in touch with the institutes long after they leave.毕业以在塔尔图举行的典礼为标志，此后非正式的校友聚会则让兽医与林业专业的同届毕业生在离校多年后仍与各研究所保持联系。

Notable people

• Johan Skytte, the Swedish chancellor of the University of Tartu in 1632, is claimed by the university as the first voice of Estonian agricultural education because of his opening speech about peasants and the springs of learning.1632 年出任塔尔图大学校监的瑞典人约翰·斯屈特，因其关于农民与知识活水的开学演说，被本校奉为爱沙尼亚农业教育的最早代言人。

• Johann Wilhelm Krause, the first professor of agriculture at Tartu from 1802, established the teaching of agronomy and also left his mark on the university's buildings and its botanical garden.约翰·威廉·克劳泽自 1802 年起担任塔尔图首位农学教授，奠定了农学教学的基础，也在大学建筑与植物园上留下了自己的印记。

• Richard Antons, rector from 1951 to 1954, led the new academy through its first years, when staff, students and equipment had to be assembled from two former faculties.理查德·安东斯于 1951 年至 1954 年任院长，带领这所新学院度过最初几年，当时师资、学生与设备都需从两个原属大学的系中拼合而来。

• Minna Klement, rector from 1954 to 1969, was the first woman to head the institution and presided over a long period of growth in student numbers and teaching buildings.明娜·克莱门特于 1954 年至 1969 年任院长，是该机构首位女性领导人，任内学生规模与教学建筑都经历了长期增长。

• Arnold Rüütel, rector from 1969 to 1977, went on to chair the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR and to serve as President of Estonia from 2001 to 2006.阿诺德·吕特尔于 1969 年至 1977 年任院长，此后出任爱沙尼亚苏维埃社会主义共和国最高苏维埃主席团主席，并于 2001 年至 2006 年任爱沙尼亚总统。

• Alar Karis, a molecular geneticist who was rector from 2003 to 2007, became Auditor General of Estonia, then director of the Estonian National Museum and, in 2021, President of the Republic.分子遗传学家阿拉尔·卡里斯于 2003 年至 2007 年任校长，其后担任爱沙尼亚审计长、爱沙尼亚国家博物馆馆长，并于 2021 年当选共和国总统。

• Mait Klaassen, rector from 1993 to 1998 and again from 2008 to 2022, steered the institution through the 2005 renaming and the consolidation of its institutes.迈特·克拉森于 1993 年至 1998 年以及 2008 年至 2022 年两度出任校长，主导了 2005 年的更名与各研究所的整合。

• Ülle Jaakma, rector since 2023, is a researcher in animal reproduction and embryo technology who previously directed the Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences.于勒·亚克马自 2023 年起任校长，是动物繁殖与胚胎技术领域的研究者，此前曾执掌兽医与动物科学研究所。

• Olev Saveli, rector from 1988 to 1993, held the institution together during the end of the Soviet system and the first years of independence, when public funding and enrolment both fell sharply.奥列夫·萨维利于 1988 年至 1993 年任院长，在苏联体制终结与独立初期公共经费和学生人数双双骤降的岁月里维持了学校的运转。

• Henn Elmet, rector from 1998 to 2002, oversaw the early alignment of Estonian agricultural degrees with European Union standards ahead of accession in 2004.亨恩·埃尔梅特于 1998 年至 2002 年任校长，在 2004 年入盟之前主持了爱沙尼亚农业学位与欧盟标准的初步接轨。