The Programme

This programme equips graduates with the skills they need to manage agricultural resources to meet such diverse objectives as profit, sustainability and environmental improvement. This programme covers not only production, but the challenges surrounding sustainability, the rural environment and other farming issues. Students benefit greatly from visiting speakers from companies in the agricultural sector as well as field visits to farms of interest, which play an important part in the delivery of this programme allowing practical examples of best practice in the industry to be shared.

What You Study

• Dissertation
• Research Methods
• Integrated Farm Management
• Agriculture in the Environment
• Business Strategy and Marketing
• Rural Business Planning
• Sustainable Production

Special Features

The College has excellent links with local and national companies including the Environment Agency, Cranswick Country Foods, Masstock and Thompsons of York. These provide our students with ongoing research opportunities on a practical level that can benefit agriculture in the future. The course has been developed to provide an in-house progression route for those students studying Foundation Degree Agriculture but also to diversify the options open to those wishing to study at Bishop Burton College from other institutions.The course has a more business management focus to equip graduates with an extensive range of skills required in the rapidly changing land based sector. The dissertation research project gives students the opportunity to investigate a topic of their choice to a greater depth; this can be matched to the student

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.

Entry Requirements

A relevant Foundation Degree (or related HND at merit level) or Ordinary Degree or

How to Apply

Apply for the full-time course through UCAS using code DN41.Entry onto the part-time course is by direct application to the College 0800 731 8281.

Duration

2 years part-time