Master of Engineering in Digital Agriculture
Online
DURATION
3 up to 10 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
02 May 2025
EARLIEST START DATE
Aug 2025
TUITION FEES
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STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
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Key Summary
Introduction
Our fully online non-thesis digital agriculture program combines the expertise of faculty in the top-ranked departments of Computer Science, Crop Sciences, and Agricultural and Biological Engineering. The program is designed for both recent graduates and working professionals with the flexibility to be full-time or part-time students. Our students are uniquely poised to lead this new field with this multidisciplinary training. In this program, students can explore the agricultural applications of topics like data science, applied statistics, artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, automation, robotics, and more.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the institute website for more information.
Curriculum
- 8 credit hours of Agricultural and Biological Engineering coursework
- 4 credit hours of Computer Science coursework
- 4 credit hours of Crop Sciences coursework
- 4 hours of capstone or professional practicum
- 12 hours of approved elective courses
- 32 total credit hours
Professional development credit can be acquired through an activity such as an internship with a company, laboratory, or agency with a subsequent archivable report, a design project performed under a faculty mentor, or a transcripted business-oriented or leadership course.
Only 400- and 500-level coursework counts toward this degree and 12 hours of 500-level courses must be completed.
Students must hold a 3.0 GPA or above to graduate.
Rankings
#8 Agricultural and biological engineering graduate program
#5 Computer science graduate program
#2 Overall online engineering graduate program (The Grainger College of Engineering)
#7 Overall engineering graduate program (The Grainger College of Engineering)
(U.S. News & World Report, 2025)
Program Tuition Fee
English Language Requirements
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