Career opportunities

This course will prepare you for a range of leadership roles in agriculture, including agricultural consultant, agricultural extension officer, or Landcare officer. You could move into advisory, policy or advocacy roles. Work in catchment management, agricultural education and training, executive management, rural counselling, agricultural consultancy, agricultural finance and natural resource management.

What you will study?

For each 8-point subject you are enrolled in, you should expect to spend 10 to 12 hours per week working on assignments and assigned readings, tutorial assistance, individual or group research/study, forum activity, workplace learning, and attending lectures, intensive schools, or examinations. If you are studying four subjects per session, this is equivalent to a full-time job. The workload for some subjects may vary as a result of approved course design.

Entry requirements

• A completed Bachelor Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline from a University or other tertiary education provider.

OR

• A completed Graduate Certificate in Agriculture from a University or other tertiary education provider (or equivalent).

OR

• A completed Graduate Diploma in Agriculture from a University or other tertiary education provider (or equivalent)

OR

• Relevant Industry experience from the agricultural/business sector of at least 3 years or equivalent knowledge gained through alternate means

  1. providing evidence of having completed a sufficient standard of study in English (as outlined in Group one and Group two lists below)

  2. for undergraduate courses have obtained an Academic IELTS within the last 2 years with:

• a minimum overall score of 6.0
• no individual score below 5.5

Fees and scholarship

International on campus

> Fee paying overseas:

>> Full-time - $35,760.00 pa

>> Part-time - $17,880.00 pa

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