MSc Sustainable Agriculture
Gloucester, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 20,625 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Pursue big global issues
Pursue key agricultural solutions to today’s industry challenges of climate change, sustainability, resource management, food security, food safety and an increasing world population.
Supported by our academic and industry experts, you’ll understand how scientific theory can be used to improve both professional and industry practice.
Lead agricultural innovation
Our government-backed £2million Agri-Tech Centre and Digital Innovation Farm project have been designed to make us a leading national voice in agri-science.
You’ll be part of this initiative, playing an active role in our smart farming platform where knowledge and digital technology combine. Our smart tech, robotics and precision tools will place you at the forefront of agricultural data and science.
Create a sustainable future
You’ll have access to laboratories, our 400-hectare award-winning commercial farm (dairy, beef, sheep and arable) and smart farming initiatives. You’ll be supported to maximise learning opportunities in the real-world both inside and outside your studies, to help provide sustainable solutions for modern industry challenges.
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Scholarships and Funding
To celebrate our rich agricultural history, International fee-paying students enrolling on an agriculture degree will receive a £2,000 reduction in tuition fees.
Curriculum
The master’s degree focuses on the science of agricultural production, focused on meeting current industry sustainability challenges. You’ll understand how livestock management research is informing critical initiatives to address urgent global issues across the next 50 years.
A central theme will be investigating how science can support industry to conserve natural resources; this is increasingly vital as resources become scarce and pressure to meet sustainable developments goals (SDGs) increases. You’ll evaluate effective measurement models, understanding how farming systems support the effective management of natural, manufactured and human resources, to maximise sustainability and business profitability. This will include controlling supply, demand and business value chains.
To enhance your learning, you’ll engage in new ways with your own professional practice, increasing your ability to relate academic theory to the work environment. This will ensure you’re building identified work-related skills - intellectual, transferable and subject specific - to enhance your career.
Through your dissertation, you’ll design and deliver a piece of research in line with your interests or professional focus. This could be based in your own workplace or another industry area, for example, an initiative on our commercial farm, Agri-Tech Centre or as part of our Digital Innovation Farm project.
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Career Opportunities
This master’s degree is focused on developing your understanding of how agricultural sciences are applied in industry to ensure that current and future challenges are met successfully.
Industry opportunities
You’ll have opportunities to learn directly on our commercial farm that works with Sainsbury’s, Muller, Glencore and Frontier, among others. You’ll also benefit from our extensive industry networks including GFirstLEP, NFU, Foyle Food Group and Agrii.
Visiting lecturers
You'll hear from a range of academic and industry professionals in lectures who are experts in their field. This will allow you to broaden your knowledge and develop your commercial connections, whilst discussing real world case studies.
Graduate destinations
This programme is well suited for people wishing to progress into higher management within the agricultural industry, work in agricultural consultancy or be active in industry research. It could also allow for excellent routes into agricultural legislation and policy, animal and plant health, and professional bodies such as NFU, DEFRA and APHA.