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Agricultural sciences

Choose Your Path to Success: Study Agriculture

Feed the nation, create health and wealth, and secure your future.
Agriculture is the new oil


Everyone eats, every day. Are you passionate about feeding the nation and creating wealth from the soil?.
Agriculture is not just digging. It is science, business and innovation.
Whether you have finished S.6, S.4 or P.7, or you are a dreamer who wants to create jobs rather than look for them, there is a course level for you.


Why join us

  • Highly employable skills: graduates are in demand across farming, agribusiness and development work
  • Earn while you learn: put your skills to work while you study.
  • Scholarships and student support: help is available so finances don’t stand in your way.
  • Modern learning: practical teaching with current tools and techniques.
  • Industry partnerships and internships: gain real experience before you graduate.
  • Hands-on farm training: learn in the field, not just the classroom.


What you will become

An agripreneur, not just a farmer.

What you will stud

  • Agribusiness and farm management
  • Crop and animal science
  • Value addition and food processing
  • Agricultural mechanization, irrigation and technology
  • Emerging fields in agriculture [e.g. climate-smart farming, agri-tech]
Career opportunities
  • Farm manager: be your own boss
  • Agronomist or crop scientist: research and soil analysis
  • Agricultural extension officer: advise and support farmers
  • Development sector officer: work with organizations such as FAO and World Vision
  • Poultry production manager
  • Food exporter or agribusiness dealer

 

 Entry requirements

Your level

Requirement

Course

S.6

2 principal passes in Biology, Agriculture or Chemistry

Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Agriculture

S.4

Credits in Biology, Agriculture, Chemistry and Geography

Certificate in Agriculture

P.7

Completed P.7

Uganda Community Polytechnic Certificate