Agricultural Sciences
专业详情
Agricultural scientists make a valuable contribution to ensuring reliable, ecological, economical and socially sustainable human nutrition. Here they strive to optimise the use of limited natural resources.
Career profile
Agricultural Sciences graduates are in great demand in the global food system. They play a significant role in the search for solutions to problems such as:
- how the growing world population can be sustainably fed without damaging soil, water and air resources
- how the raw materials for producing food and their processing quality can be continuously adapted to market requirements.
Agricultural scientists occupy management positions in commerce and industry, public administration, private organisations and research. Those working at universities and research centres in Switzerland and abroad deliver new insights and deduce methods, processes or procedures. They apply their knowledge in consulting services or in the field of development cooperation. Their expertise enables them to help shape the political and economic conditions underlying global nutrition working in public administration or on international committees.
Bachelor’s degree programme (180 credits)
The first two years cover scientific and subject-specific fundamentals. Practical experience is gained through excursions and a ten-week internship with an agricultural farm after the fourth semester.
In the third year, students build on these experiences through scientific learning, while gaining methodological skills. The Bachelor’s degree programme concludes with a Bachelor’s thesis.
General basic courses:
Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics, etc.
Social science subjects: Law, Economics
General Agricultural Science subjects
Basics of Agricultural Sciences
Specialist areas in Agricultural Sciences: Plant Sciences, Animal Sciences, Agricultural Economics, methodological subjects
Agricultural Economics, methodological subjects
Excursions, agricultural internship, Bachelor’s thesis
For detailed information go to the pages in German Agrarwissenschaften
