Information Technology in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (M.Sc.)

Overview

Agriculture and also environmental protection are becoming increasingly digital. Applied informatics is used to analyse, evaluate and optimise primary agricultural production and its impact on the environment. Major ecological and economic challenges are at stake. How can resources be used efficiently and thus conserved? How can environmental protection and value creation be reconciled? How can the quality of food be increased through precise technologies? How can we meet our social responsibility and do business sustainably with the help of innovative IT solutions? This is where IT talents with digital competence are needed.

The Master's programme in Information Technology in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences combines the basic knowledge specific to agriculture and the environment from the Bachelor's programme with broad training in computer applications. The programme is aimed at students who enjoy computer science and are open-minded about digitalisation and modern agriculture. You have already acquired basic knowledge of agricultural and environmental sciences through your Bachelor's degree and you want to contribute to sustainable, digitised agriculture and use the digital components of environmental sciences to safeguard natural resources.

You can find more information about the admission requirements under the tab "Application".

You will learn to analyse data, create predictive models, simulate processes and use large amounts of data for optimisation with the help of new technologies.

Teaching and research is conducted in the areas of:

• Geoinformation systems
• Precision Farming
• remote sensing
• Big Data and Data Sciences
• Computer-aided planning of breeding programmes in plant and animal breeding