2020-2021 / Master

Agricultural bioengineering (120 ECTS)

120 credits

Job opportunities

Bioscience engineers in Agricultural Sciences are particularly trained to:

  • Ensure the supply of food and non-food products
  • Ensure the sustainable development of specialized and non-specialized agriculture, both in the industrialized world and in less advanced regions
  • Participate in the orientation, definition and implementation of agricultural, agri-environmental and general development policies
  • Assess the environmental, economic and social impacts of agricultural, agro-industrial and para-agricultural activities
  • Promote the production, processing and marketing of agricultural products, "from farm to fork", while ensuring product quality and human health
  • Improve plant and animal species
  • Contribute to limiting climate change and its effects
  • Combat desertification, erosion and land degradation
  • Streamline the use of finite natural resources
  • Develop the production and use of resources - energy and raw materials - renewable
  • Integrate social, environmental and agricultural relationships into development projects

The skills acquired can be used in the primary, secondary and tertiary fields of the following economic activities:

  • plant and animal science in agrarian societies or farms in temperate and tropical regions
  • agro-supply (fertilizers, seeds, plant protection products, etc.), animal feed and agri-food industries
  • marketing of products upstream and downstream of agriculture
  • biological and integrated control as well as plant and animal breeding
  • conservation and management of plant and animal collections
  • development projects through national and international organizations, consulting firms, cooperatives and NGOs
  • advice and expertise in products and services
  • general and technical education
  • scientific research and research and development
  • extension and training applied to crop and livestock production

Find out more about the professions of bioscience engineers