- 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
- Growing the Future: Plant Breeding & Seed Science
Plant breeding is an industry upstream of agricultural production that has had and will continue to have a significant role in increasing agricultural production and productivity. The interface between plant breeding and agricultural production is the seed sector with seed multiplication, processing, and marketing.
The "Plant Breeding and Seed Science" major qualifies students for the professional field of plant breeding and seed production, building on an agriculturally oriented Bachelor's degree programme. It is integrated as a major in the Master's degree programme "Crop Sciences".
Objectives
Students completing the programme successfully will be trained to accomplish the following:
• scientific competence
• apply broad knowledge in biology, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and data science to solve problems in modern plant breeding
• process and analyse complex sets of analytical and phenotyping data with advanced statistical and bioinformatic methods
• design, carry out and evaluate research projects on seed quality in a plant breeding environment
• towards qualified employment
• develop plant breeding approaches to address the challenges of e.g. climate change or bioeconomy
• assess impacts of plant breeding under societal, scientific, and ethical aspects
• determine and assess seed quality with standard methods and modern technologies
• towards personality development
• communicate complex issues in an understandable manner across disciplines and cultures
Occupational Fields
Typical employers of graduates of "Plant Breeding and Seed Science" are private companies and public institutions engaged in practical plant breeding or breeding research, as well as seed production or seed research in Germany or abroad. A doctorate is advisable if a student wants to be the director of a breeding programme or a breeding laboratory in a breeding company or a public plant breeding institution, for which graduates in this discipline are very well qualified.
- 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).