Agricultural Resource Management

BSc (Hons) (Final Year) Agricultural Resource Management
Mode: full-time

The Programme:
This programme has been developed in response to the current period of unprecedented change within the agricultural industry. Visiting speakers from companies in the agricultural sector as well as field visits to farms of interest play an important part in the delivery of this course. Assessment is based on assignments, seminars, field study, examinations and a dissertation.

What you study:

• Agro-Ecology.
• Dissertation.
• Integrated Farm Management.
• Managing Change in Organisations.
• Marketing and Business Strategies.
• Management in the Wider Environment.
• Rural Business Planning.

Special Features:
As the College has the advantage of a working commercial farm on site this allows our students to see real farming in practice alongside their theoretical studies.

Essential Information:

People who take this course could go on to:
Work within production agriculture as farm managers and in the ancillary industries as technical sales personnel and agronomists. Environmental management and consultancy positions are available, both in the private and public sector. There is also a growing prospect of exciting opportunities overseas, notably in the enlarged European Union.