- Degree
- Master of Science (M. Sc.)
- Admission restriction
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No
- Cotact
- Application deadline
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29 April – 15 July 2025
What awaits you in the Agricultural Management degree programme
In the Master's degree programme in Agricultural Management, you will deepen your professional knowledge and strengthen your management skills in the responsible and future-oriented production, processing and marketing of agricultural or horticultural products. The degree programme at the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf qualifies you for a management position in companies along the horticultural and agricultural value chains, but also, for example, for senior service in state authorities.
Depending on your individual specialisation, you will focus your studies on agricultural businesses, on organic Agriculture and Horticulture or on the corresponding value chains. Digitalisation and data management, sustainability and local justice always play a central role. The programme is offered jointly by the departments Sustainable Agriculture and Energy Systems, Horticulture and Food Technology, and Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition. For you, this means that you can choose from a variety of modules and benefit from the different competences.
Study Agricultural Management: Study contents
In the Agricultural Management degree programme, you learn to develop innovative and practical systems.
The goal: to optimise agricultural and horticultural production operations in a location- and environment-friendly, resource-efficient and economically stable manner, as well as to design corresponding value chains. You will acquire the necessary skills to adapt farms and value chains to new challenges.
The Master's programme builds on the basic knowledge you gained in your Bachelor's programme, e.g. Agriculture or Horticulture. It consolidates and deepens a broad systemic understanding of the agricultural, horticulture and food sector of tomorrow. You will learn professional and methodological skills to analyse, evaluate and optimise complex interrelationships in business and management.
Structure of the Master's degree in Agricultural Management
The degree programme comprises three compulsory modules that teach methods as well as a central practical project and offers a wide range of options for your individual profile development. The management-related compulsory elective modules serve to strengthen your management competence. The subject-related compulsory elective modules serve to deepen your subject competence - always with reference to your specialisation.
At the beginning of your studies, you first select one of the three specialisations:
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Management of Farm Systems in Agriculture
Based on the interdisciplinary analysis of existing farms (location, production, economy, marketing), you will be taught skills to be able to develop new farm systems that are adapted to the location and meet the requirements and framework conditions of the future. The focus is on the entire farm with all its internal and external interdependencies and interactions.
Practical project:
- Project on location-appropriate operating systems for agricultural enterprises
Specialised required elective modules (FWPM), e.g:
- Site-specific crop production
- Grassland vegetation & fodder conservation
- Quality of agricultural products
- Herd management cattle
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Management of Farming Systems in Organic Agriculture and Horticulture
Organically managed farms are particularly dependent on coordinating internal processes from production to marketing and optimally incorporating the potential and limitations of the location. In addition to technical know-how, the competences for understanding and further developing overall systems are of central importance.
Practical project:
- Project on site-appropriate operating systems for organic farms
Specialised required elective modules (FWPM), e.g.:
- organic market fruit & field vegetable production
- case studies in organic horticulture
- organic pig & poultry farming
- organic cattle farming
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Value Chain Management
The success of Agriculture and Horticulture companies depends crucially on how good they are at marketing products to consumers along the entire value chain. This requires competences for the organisation of the entire value chain from production to the preparation and processing of raw materials to efficient marketing to consumers. In order to provide you with these competences, this specialisation focuses on the interdisciplinary consideration of the production, processing and marketing of Agriculture and Horticulture products.
Practical project:
- Project on value chain coordination
Specialised required elective modules (FWPM), e.g.:
- World trade in the agricultural & food sector
- Animal welfare along the value chain
- Communication in crisis management
- Consumer Studies
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Management-related elective modules (MWPM) - for all specialisations
In addition, you choose three management-related compulsory elective modules, e.g:
- Consulting, Communication & Negotiation
- Corporate Management, Human Resources, Tax, Law
- English for Specific Purposes
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Module Manuals
Please note that the module handbooks are updated at the beginning of each semester and are valid for the current semester.
Study Agricultural Management & Make a Career
As a manager of tomorrow, you can work along the entire value chain in the agricultural, horticulture and food industry, in consulting and research institutions or in the higher civil service, at offices and authorities at home and abroad. Due to the breadth of the study programme and the possibility of individual profile formation, you have excellent prospects in all of these areas.
Requirements, Admission & Application for Agricultural Management Studies
The admission requirement for the Agricultural Management degree programme is that you have successfully completed your Bachelor's degree with an above-average grade in one of the following degree programmes:
- Agriculture
- Horticulture
- Agricultural Engineering
- Foodstuff Management
- Industrial Engineering and Management Agribusiness Marketing and Management
- Agribusiness
- Organic Food & Business
- Agricultural/Horticultural Sciences
- or equivalent course of study
You have completed your Bachelor's degree with an overall grade of at least 2.59 or among the best 50 % and have earned 210 credits. If you have completed your Bachelor's degree with an overall grade between 2.60 and 2.99, you will be given the opportunity to demonstrate the necessary competences for the Master's degree programme in an aptitude interview.
If you have completed a degree programme with a lower number of credits (but at least 180 EC), you can make up the missing credits in individually selected modules after taking up the degree programme.
You can already start the Master's programme even if you do not yet fulfil the admission requirements at the beginning (certificate not yet available). However, you must then provide proof that you have met the admission requirements no later than six weeks after the start of the semester. In this case, you must submit a certificate with your application stating that it is expected that you will fulfil the admission requirements during this period.
The application period
- for the summer semester starts at the beginning of December and ends on 15 January.
- for the winter semester starts at the beginning of May and ends on 15 July.
Do you want insider knowledge and tips? Then ask our degree programme ambassadors!
I'm Elian Böck and I'm in my first semester of the Agricultural Management degree programme. Why did I choose this particular Master's programme? Here I can consolidate my knowledge from the Bachelor's programme and learn to apply it in a completely different way. Thanks to the small group size, everyone knows everyone and the contact with the lecturers is really good. Feel free to contact me by email if you are thinking about studying Agricultural Management and need more information.
I'm Jonas Köster and I'm in the first semester of the Agricultural Management degree programme. Three departments of the HSWT are involved in the Agricultural Management degree programme, so we have many modules to choose from and benefit from the wide range of expertise. All options are open to you with this Master's programme. If you would like to know more about the content of the programme or what my experiences have been like so far, please send me an e-mail.
