Master in Agricultural Sciences

The Degree Course in Agricultural Sciences is organized into three curricula (Sustainable Crop Management, Smart Agriculture, and International Cooperation) and aims to train experts with a broad and multidisciplinary preparation to operate autonomously with planning, decision-making, and management tasks within the systems agrarians. Modern agriculture, alongside the primary objective of producing food, must also know how to manage the territory and guarantee the safety of production, safeguarding the environment and human health. Master's graduates will have the cultural, scientific, and technical flexibility necessary to manage agricultural production systems in the social, economic and environmental contexts in which they will operate.

The training objectives are achieved through the following learning areas within which the different courses are inserted and organized:

1. The area of production and management of agricultural crops develops skills relating to agricultural production, from a qualitative and quantitative point of view to the management and protection of the soil, to the management and protection of cultivated plants, to agricultural production chains and to the sustainable management of agroecosystems.
2. The agricultural engineering area develops skills relating to the topography and cartography of rural territory, tools for precision agriculture, water resource management, rural construction, energy systems, to arrive at tools for data analysis and for the sustainable management of agrotechnics.
3. The socio-economic area of agricultural systems develops skills relating to agricultural economics, international agricultural policies, appraisal, agricultural law, economic-political geography and the socio-anthropological implications of work in agriculture.

Multidisciplinary activities are planned with the aim of developing transversal skills, where students will be asked to apply the knowledge acquired during the study cycle. Part of the teachings will be delivered in English to encourage the international mobility of students.

Part of the credits will be reserved for free choice training activities, internship and the development of the experimental thesis. During the Master's Degree Course , study stays may be carried out at foreign universities and institutions, also in the context of specific international agreements. The last learning phase is dedicated to carrying out an experimental thesis.