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.

The College has excellent links with local and national companies including the Environment Agency, Cranswick Country Foods, Agrii 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 provide a specialist option for those wishing to move on from other institutions. The course has a 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