MScAgronomy
| Study location | Lithuania, Kaunas |
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| Academic field | Agriculture and Veterinary (ISCED 6) Human resource management (JACS N600) |
| Type | Master, full-time |
| Nominal duration | 2 years (120 ECTS) |
| Study language | English |
| Awards | MSc (Master of Agricultural Sciences) |
| Tuition fee | €5,157 per year |
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| Application fee | €100 one-time |
| Registration fee | To be confirmed You need to choose an individual service package. Please contact the center curator or your agent and consult. You become a part of student union and ambassador program automatically after you will get Base or Standard or VIP status. *Do not forget to ask discount |
| Entry qualification | Undergraduate diploma (or higher) Please provide the secondary school leaving certificate in the original language. If the diploma is not issued in English, a certified translation should be provided. The document must be legalised/apostilled. You must take the original entry qualification documents along with you when you finally go to the university. It is necessary to have notarized certified documents translated, legalized and apostilled. |
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| Territory requirements | Applications are NOT accepted from the following territories (based on citizenship): Bangladesh, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen. |
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| Language requirements | English English |
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| Other requirements | At least 2 reference(s) should be provided. |
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Overview
Upon the completion of the study programme, graduates will be able to:
- define modern agronomic research methods and know the theoretical aspects of counselling methodology;
- apply theoretical and practical knowledge of agronomy for solving scientific problems in the field of agriculture;
- understand optimization opportunities of plant physiological indicators by choosing technologies and other factors;
- plan and conduct research, formulate scientific problems;
- predict the ways of its solution, evaluate and interpret results, provide consultations in the field of agriculture, analyse and evaluate elements of plant productivity and factors affecting production quality, prognosticate and model productivity of plants, choose and apply the methods of plant propagation.
Programme structure
General subjects: European Union Agricultural Policy and Law, Methodology of Extension, Experimental Design and Analysis, Information Technology in Agriculture, Impact of Agricultural Activities on Environment, Integrated Pest Management, Agrobiological Potential of Plants, Biology and Fertility of Soil, Plant Nutrition Physiology, Bioeconomy, Master theses.
Specializations:
Crop Production: Innovations in Crop Production, Alternative Crop Science, Agroecosystem Sustainability, Purposive Plant Breeding and Seed Production.
Plant Protection and Nutrition: Plant Pathology, Plant Parasitology, Management of Weed and Crop Competition, Fertilization Systems and Their Management, Development of Resistant Plants by Biotechnological Methods.
Horticulture: Biological Basics of Productivity of Horticultural Plants, Intensive Fruit Growing, Pest Management in Orchards and Olericulture, Orchard and Garden Plant Nutrition.
Students, who are willing to study in other European universities, have possibility to go on exchange studies or traineeship abroad for one semester at 90 European universities (ex. Vienna University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Ghent University, Czech University of Life Sciences, Hohenheim University, Athens Agricultural University, Padova University, Palermo University, Valencia Technical University, University of Algarve, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ege University, etc.) getting the monthly scholarship
Career opportunities
Graduates have career opportunities as managers, researchers, senior consultants in agricultural education and government institution that modelling strategy of agricultural and food economy development in training and management institutions, consulting services, horticultural and floricultural farms and enterprises. The programme offers graduates opportunity to further third cycle studies (PhD) in the area of agricultural sciences in Lithuanian and foreign universities.
