Agronomy

Overview

The professional master's degree in agronomy is for bachelor's graduates who want to become crop production engineers. It deepens cropping systems agronomy, plant breeding, integrated fertility and pest management, and experimentation.

The program builds the ability to design solutions suited to farms, run trials and lead agricultural development projects.

Objectives

• Design productive and sustainable cropping systems.
• Master experimental methods and agronomic data analysis.
• Lead agricultural development and innovation projects.
• Manage technical teams and support farmers.

Target skills

• Assess a farm and propose an improvement plan.
• Design, run and analyse an experimental set-up.
• Implement integrated fertility and pest management.
• Design, monitor and evaluate an agricultural project.
• Write technical and scientific reports.

Curriculum

First year (S1-S2): cropping systems, plant breeding, integrated pest management, soil fertility, biostatistics and experimentation, agricultural economics.

Second year (S3-S4): agroecology, irrigation and water management, seeds and biotechnology, project engineering, team management, long internship and master's dissertation.

Indicative curriculum: the distribution of courses may change from one academic year to the next.

Career opportunities

• Agronomist engineer
• Production or farm manager
• Applied research and trials officer
• Agricultural development project manager
• Crop production consultant

Career outcomes also depend on internship experience and each student's career plans.