- Degree
- Master of Science (MSc)
- Course location
- Stuttgart
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- The entire programme is taught in English.
- Full-time / part-time
- • full-time
- Mode of study
- Fully on-site with voluntary online elements
- Programme duration
- 4 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter semester
- Application deadline
- 15 March each year for non-EU citizens
15 July each year for EU citizens
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- Varied
- Additional information on tuition fees
- Currently, higher education is (almost) free at all public universities in Baden-Württemberg. Since the winter semester of 2017/18, universities in Baden-Württemberg charge moderate tuition fees for non-EU international students. These fees amount to 1,500 EUR per semester. Students from the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) as well as exchange students are excluded from these fees. Refugees are also not affected.
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- Cultivated Plants for the Future
The major "Plant Nutrition and Protection" in the Master's programme "Crop Sciences" focuses on understanding crops in their growing systems and developing agricultural systems that are high-yielding as well as ecologically sustainable. Adaptation of agricultural systems to climate change, changing environments, and any kind of stress are key challenges for society. This degree programme is designed to produce experts who will provide solutions to future needs.
The goal of the “Plant Nutrition and Protection” major is to increase the efficiency of culture crops and cultivation systems to convert light and additional resources to increase their use as food, feed and bio-based products.
Objectives
Graduates will be able to develop independent approaches to address the changing issues of modern plant production systems. Their broad understanding stretches from basic biology to physiology and ecology as well as bio-informatics and expert systems. They have acquired the ability to apply analytical and scientific knowledge of plant biology and production at the individual plant level, and they have learned to think in terms of managing an agroecosystem. Through excursions, exercises, and seminars, students have gained experience needed to apply their scientific knowledge to real-world situations.
Graduates will be able to apply scientific methods, communicate their knowledge across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, and lead or coordinate teams in a variety of professional settings.
Occupational fields
Graduates develop skills in critical and solution-oriented thinking and are well-prepared for current research questions in plant physiology, plant nutrition and protection, and biometric evaluation techniques. Employers of graduates are private companies and public institutions, either in Germany or abroad.
Examples of potential fields of employment include:
• Public and private research centres
• Agroindustry
• Crop production
• Chemical-pharmaceutical industry
• Service and consulting companies
• Non-governmental organisations
The major "Plant Nutrition and Protection" in the Master's programme "Crop Sciences" qualifies students for starting a doctoral programme, assuming their final grade is above average.
- Current information
- For further information on this degree programme, we invite you to attend our Master’s info event (online via Zoom): www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/masters-informational-events (https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/masters-informational-events).