Harper Adams University - Prospectus 2024

Due to our longstanding and successful relationship with industry and outstanding reputation, an agricultural degree fromHarper Adams will put you in great standing for your future career. All Honours degree agricultural students study a common first year, which provides a solid foundation fromwhich to progress and specialise in year 2 and beyond. You can continue with a broad agriculture programme or specialise in as below* • Agriculture • Agriculture with Animal Production Science • Agriculture with Crop Production Science • Agriculture with Farm Business Management • Agriculture with FarmTechnology In addition to Honours Degree Agriculture programmes, we also offer a Foundation Degree in Agriculture with the opportunity, subject to performance in year 1, to transfer to the Honours Degree programmes. Alternatively, having completed a Foundation Degree you can top up to a BSc or BSc Hons in Agriculture with a further 12 months of study. *At the time of writing, the agriculture courses at Harper Adams are being reviewed to ensure they provide the best content and experience for students and deliver excellent graduates into the sector. The core route of BSc Agriculture will be offered in 2024, with specialist routes as listed above - subject to validation. Your course will be delivered on and adjacent to our 494 hectare farmwhich surrounds the central campus and includes arable, pig and dairy enterprises. Combined with laboratories, applied engineering centre and campus-wide renewable energy systems, there are an excellent range of resources to demonstrate principles in practice! Furthermore, our central location in the UK allows students to experience a wide range of farming systems on field trips. Our staff are an amazing asset – bringing industry experience and research from the forefront of the discipline into the room for every lecture or tutorial. Knowledge stays up-to-date, relevant, and future-focused. We are not here to repeat the past but, instead, are firmly focused on solutions for the future. At Harper Adams, we are passionate about supporting students to apply theory in practice – to thoroughly test our teaching and your learning and give you the confidence to use your skills and knowledge on placement and after graduation. Our full year on placement is key to your graduate success – you don’t just develop your skills, you will build your industry networks, learn from your colleagues and contacts, and return with a clear view of the issues to be tackled in future. Placement opportunities are many and varied and a number are supported by scholarships which provide financial support in the second and/or final year of study as well as a salaried placement year job. For outstanding education Why choose Harper Adams? For the resources you will gain access to Gaining greater depth of specialist knowledge and skills • Agriculture students have access to the FACTS qualification route and students hoping to study Agriculture with Crop Production Science have access to both FACTS & BASIS qualification routes* (*subject to validation) • Our programme supports any student, regardless of background, to gain relevant practical experience and certified practical skills training to succeed within the industry • Our large agricultural cohort, learning alongside wider rural and food industry professionals, allows extensive networking For added value HARPER.AC.UK | 17