Norwegian University of Life Sciences

NMBU's research and study programmes are enabling people all over the world to tackle the big, global challenges regarding the environment, sustainable development, how to improve human and animal health, renewable energy sources, food production, and land- and resource management.

Staff and students at NMBU will come to deal with difficult dilemmas and have to manoeuvre in situations where it is not clear what is right and what is wrong. In many issues, this concerns the opposition of different interests, in which many norms must weighed up and moderated in relation to other considerations. In each individual instance, an evaluation must be made to find the right thing to do.

The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) consists of seven faculties, of which six are located at Campus Ås and one is partially located at Campus Adamstuen. A new research and teaching building for veterinary science will open in 2019, meaning all seven faculties at NMBU will then be consolidated in Ås. The Norwegian Veterinary Institute will move to Campus Ås at the same time.

Campus Ås is also home to one of Norway's most beautiful parks, with a number of historical buildings, as well as Ås Farm, where research and teaching on traditional livestock are conducted.

Campus Ås covers a total area of 600 hectares in the municipality of Ås.

Two other major institutions are also co-located with NMBU at Campus Ås: key parts of the Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Nofima) and the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO).