Graduate Certificate of Science (GCSC) (Agricultural Sciences) (Graduate Diploma, Graduate Certificate)

The Graduate Certificate of Science (Agricultural Sciences) enables graduates from a range of science related disciplines to gain an overview of the direction of global agriculture in the 21st Century and enhance their knowledge base of specific skills in agricultural production. This degree up-skill and broaden students career prospects in an area where demand is growing for educated professionals. In this degree students have the opportunity to study areas such as food security, the application of new technologies to agricultural production and research, crop biology, soil management and advances in agricultural machinery, among others. By studying the Graduate Certificate of Science (Agricultural Science) students can broaden their career prospects to include employment in agricultural consulting, aspects of crop science, agricultural science laboratories, field-based research and on-farm technologies.