Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production MSc

Course overview

Applying

Entry requirements

Applicants should normally have a bachelor’s degree with at least a 2:1 honours degree, or international equivalent, in a relevant discipline such as biology, environmental science, food science, biochemistry, agriculture or crop and soil science.

English language requirements

IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in any components. . For other English qualifications, read English language equivalent qualifications.

Improve your English

International students who do not meet the English language requirements for this programme may be able to study our postgraduate pre-sessional English course, to help improve your English language level.

This pre-sessional course is designed with a progression route to your degree programme and you’ll learn academic English in the context of your subject area. To find out more, read Language for Science (6 weeks) and Language for Science: General Science (10 weeks).

We also offer online pre-sessionals alongside our on-campus pre-sessionals. Find out more about our six week online pre-sessional and our 10 week online pre-sessional.

You can also study pre-sessionals for longer periods – read about our postgraduate pre-sessional English courses.

Career opportunities

The program would align very strongly with the wide range of industries that support agriculture and food production, and with career paths in those industries. This includes (but is not limited to):

• Agricultural and/or environmental consultancy.
• Agricultural advisory and policy organisations (Natural England, Farming Advice Service, DEFRA).
• Environmental and agricultural monitoring.
• Agro-chemicals (Bayer, Syngenta, BASF, etc.).
• Plant biotechnology and crop breeding (KWS, Limagrain, RAGT, etc.).
• Agronomy.
• Feed companies (i.e. for livestock).
• Agricultural equipment (particularly instrumentation).

More generally, the program would align strongly with a wealth of opportunities in business and government around sustainability, climate mitigation, decarbonisation and circular economies.

Specific job titles might include: agronomist, industrial scientist, farm assessor, academic scientist (i.e. PhD student), agricultural policy adviser, agricultural technologist.