Digital Agriculture University College Dublin

Overview

With a focus on design, numeracy, hardware and software technology, our students will be deeply engaged with agricultural production, and specifically technology to enhance efficiency, sustainability, resilience and reliability. The modules will be part of existing final year full-time bachelor’s and master’s degrees and are appropriate for professionals seeking to deepen existing skills or learn brand new skill sets.

The Digital Agriculture programme at the University College Dublin is delivered by a highly research-intensive and multi-disciplinary school – Ireland’s premier agri-food related research entity with excellent networks into the agri-food industry and with a particular focus on working with industry to provide sustainable technical solutions. The school’s academic staff have a major global research impact, with three professors who are among the top 1% of the most cited researchers in the world according to the latest Highly Cited Researchers list published by Clarivate.

Career & Graduate Study Opportunity

Graduates of the MSc Digital Agriculture may find employment opportunities in the following areas:

• Agricultural machinery (e.g. Agco, CNH Industrial, Claas, John Deere)

• Precision farming (e.g. Amazone, Lemken, Rauch, Dairymaster)

• Decision support in agriculture (e.g. Corteva Digital Ag, Syngenta Global)

• IoT, data and predictive analytics (e.g. BASF, Bosch, IBM, Microsoft)