Bachelor's Degree in Agronomical Engineering (Agricultural Sciences)
Mercedes, Costa Rica
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Our Spanish program starts by mid-august. You need to apply before June.
Key Summary
About : The Bachelor’s Degree in Agronomical Engineering (Agricultural Sciences) focuses on the study of agricultural practices, land management, and the science behind crop production. This comprehensive program provides students with the skills to tackle challenges in the agricultural sector and emphasizes sustainable farming techniques. The curriculum includes hands-on training in various agricultural technologies and practices, preparing students for real-world applications.
Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue various career paths, including roles as agricultural engineers, crop consultants, farm managers, or agricultural research scientists. They may also work in government agencies, non-profits, or private sector businesses focused on advancing agricultural practices.
Why Study Agronomy at EARTH University?
Because Only at EARTH University Will You Find:
- A multicultural environment with more than 48 countries represented among students, officials, and faculty.
- More than 30 years of experience preparing young people from America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, who contribute to the sustainable development of their countries and build prosperous and just societies.
- A family that will support you at all times.
- Gender equity: student body is represented by 50% women and 50% men.
- Network of graduates on all continents (network).
- A comprehensive experience that will help you reinforce your ethical values, work as a team, be persistent, and listen to different points of view.
- Two campuses that will allow you to explore the dynamics of soil, rain, humidity, nutrients, flora, and fauna of the dry tropical and humid tropical climates.
- Living in Costa Rica: one of the safest and most stable countries in Latin America, a leader in environmental issues, without an army, and with around 4% of the world's biodiversity.
- Inclusiveness and tolerance: at EARTH you are unique and unique, you will not see discrimination based on age, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion, gender, or nationality. You will be part of a family and a comprehensive and empathetic community.
What do you learn in the classroom?
- More than 70% of our academic program is received in a practical way (outside the classroom).
- At EARTH you will develop as a citizen and global citizen and you will strengthen your capacities interpersonal.
- The program is accredited by the System National Accreditation of Education Superior of Costa Rica (SINAES).
- The training is comprehensive: during the four-year degree, you will work in the development of technical skills for the management of agriculture and natural resources. In addition, you will strengthen your
- leadership, entrepreneurship, responsibility social and environmental, and your professional and personal values.
Student Services
- Availability of staff 24/7.
- Promotion of extracurricular activities: EARTH games, Day of the Children of the Earth, Global Dignity Day, EARTH talks, health promotion, etc.
- Clubs: swimming, yoga, meditation, fitness, Zumba, badminton, ultimate frisbee, basketball, soccer, baseball, volleyball, weights, drawing, painting, popular dance, reading, and muscle strengthening (calisthenics), among others.
- Invitations to participate on international awards.
- Transportation to nearby communities, leaving campus every day at established times.
Accommodation
- Room for two people divided by a module or wall, with single bed, desk, mattress, pillow, chair, wardrobe, and table night for each student.
- Security 24/7.
- Gym, swimming pool, weight room, soccer field, baseball, volleyball, tennis, basketball, games room, and TV room.
- Three forest reserves, a 400-ha commercial banana farm, a botanical garden, an ethnobotanical garden, forms and recreation areas.
First Year
First trimester
- Introduction to Natural Sciences
- Spanish as a second language*
- Communication and Leadership
- Tropical crops
- Business project: business immersion
- Recreation and comprehensive health I
- Work experience**
- Seminar on orientation to university life I
- Operating Farm Equipment
- Preparatory computer workshop
- Basic math skills I
- 1 week vacation
Second trimester
- Spanish as a second language*
- Professional Communication
- Tropical Crop Production
- Business project: lab. business plan formulation I
- Introduction to the company
- Health Promotion
- Recreation and comprehensive health II
- Work experience**
- Mechanical Skills
- English
- Basic Math Skills II
- Ecological bases for the management of natural resources
- 2 weeks vacation
Third trimester
- Science communication and critical thinking
- Sustainable management of tropical crops
- Business project: lab. business plan formulation II
- Planning and organization of the company
- Recreation and comprehensive health III
- Work experience**
- Opportunities for development and equity
- Seminar on orientation to university life II
- English
- Quantitative Skills for Agricultural Sciences
- Tropical Animal Production End-of-Year Holidays
Second Year
First trimester
- Pest management: weeds
- Business project: business experience
- Accounting and Information Systems
- Work experience**
- Rural development and sustainable communities
- English
- Calculus for Agricultural Sciences I
- Animal reproduction and lactation
- 1-week vacation
Second trimester
- Applied genetics
- Inorganic chemical processes
- Business project: business experience
- Work experience**
- English
- General Statistics I
- 2 weeks vacation
Third trimester
- Organic/Biochemical Chemical Processes
- Pest Management: Entomology
- Pest management: diseases
- Business project: business experience
- Finances
- Physical well-being and health
- Work experience**
- English
- Year-end holidays
Third Year
First trimester
- Business project: business experience
- Project evaluation
- Work experience: agroindustrial
- Spatial information management
- English
- Sustainable farming systems
- Tropical Forestry
- Tropical soil properties
- 1-week vacation
Second trimester
- Physiological processes and postharvest systems
- Applied ecology
- Business project: lab. from
- business closure
- Socio-environmental economics
- Work experience: Community
- English
- Calculus for Agricultural Sciences II
- Preparing for the Internship
- Management and conservation of tropical soils
- 1-week vacation
Third trimester
- Internship
- Year-end holidays
Fourth Year
First trimester
- Food Processing
- Elective
- Professional Experience
- Ethics and Critical Thinking
- English
- Internship Analysis
- Methods and Preparation of Proposals
- Graduation Project
- 1 week vacation
Second trimester
- Physics
- Elective
- Professional Experience
- Irrigation and Drainage
- English
- Graduation Project
- 2 weeks vacation
Third trimester
- Professional Experience
- World Economy and Systems
- Regionals
- Waste Management
- Graduation Project
- Elective 1
- Elective 2
- Graduation
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