Agriculture with Business Management (with integrated year in industry)

Overview

The agricultural industry is becoming increasingly complex. Changes in support mechanisms and pressure to diversify and manage the environment have made success in the farming sector increasingly reliant on high quality, vigorous business management skills.

Why study Agriculture at Aberystwyth University? 

• This Agriculture with Business Management (with integrated year in industry) BSc course offered at Aberystwyth University is delivered by our award-winning Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), which is also the home of the Farm Business Survey. Aberystwyth University has a long-established and enviable reputation throughout the world for its teaching and research in agriculture and rural science, and the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences is the largest and best-resourced university department of its kind in the UK;
• You will be taught by leading experts who you may have already seen on TV documentaries or heard on the radio;
• The University offers students over 1000HA of farmland, including lowland and upland sheep farms; a 500 cow dairy herd; intensive and extensive beef production systems; an equine centre and a flow of layer poultry;
• At Aberystwyth University, we place a great emphasis on providing you with a student experience that is memorable and enables you to succeed in your degree. 

What opportunities exist after studying?

Our graduates have progressed and are successful in the following:

• Agricultural consultant;
• Consultancy;
• Farm Management;
• Rural practice surveyor;
• Financial services;
• Animal nutritionist.

Our four-year Agriculture with Business management degree will kick start your career as you will have benefited from a year in industry on a farm or an agri-related business.