Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is made up of Wageningen University and eight research institutes of the Stichting Wageningen Research foundation. The two share an Executive Board and a Supervisory Board; Supervisory Board members are appointed by the Dutch ministers of education and of agriculture. Wageningen’s status as an institute of higher education was legally ratified on 9 March 1918, when it became the National Agricultural College. Sjoukje Heimovaara is President of the Executive Board.
WUR is organised into five science groups, each combining a university department with one or more research institutes; the university has one faculty, five departments and 88 chair groups. In October 2025 it had 12,407 students, 5,175 at bachelor’s and 6,754 at master’s level, of whom 3,376 were from outside the Netherlands. Its workforce in 2025 was 6,936 full-time equivalents: 3,567 at the university and 3,369 at Wageningen Research.