One Year Farming

This short course aims to expand your understanding of some of the current challenges facing the agricultural industry, such as the food supply chain, traceability and sustainability.

It will be delivered through a series of lectures, seminars, and practical classes at the University farms and laboratories. Assessment activities centre largely around real-life scenarios based on the farms. You’ll complete project work, case studies, presentations, and one-to-one discussions. There are termly examinations to monitor progress and provide feedback.

Timetables

Timetables are normally available one month before registration. Please note that while we make every effort to ensure that timetables are as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day of the week. Wednesday afternoons are normally reserved for sports and societies activities.

Modules

Each module is worth a specified number of credits. Each credit equates to 10 hours of total study time. Total study time includes scheduled teaching, independent study and assessment activity.

Full-time students normally take modules worth 60 credits per 15 week semester but this can vary depending on your elective choice. Part-time students taking proportionally fewer credits per semester. 

Typical course modules are: 

• Crop Production and Science
• OYFC4 Estate Management
• Farm Administration
• Farming and the Environment
• General Agricultural Issues
• OYFC2 Livestock Production and Science
• Machinery and Buildings
• Skills training

To complement your core studies, you’ll be encouraged to select from a significant choice of rural skills courses, which may include training in the following categories:

• Machinery operation and maintenance
• Health and safety
• Crop health (pesticides and agronomy)
• Estate management
• Livestock husbandry and veterinary skills

Tuition fees cover the cost of a student’s academic studies. This usually includes teaching costs, registration and examination fees (not re-sit fees or coursework resubmission).

The One Year Farming Course is a privately-funded course and applicants will not have access to student loans from the Student Loans Company or other government funding initiatives. This course is outside of the UCAS system and does not lead to UCAS tariff points.

2019-20 Applicants

For the academic year 2019/20 the tuition fees for this course are: 

Part-time fees will be charged on a pro-rata basis.

Tuition fees may be subject to an inflationary increase each year as set out in our Access and Participation Plan 2019/20.

For full details, please visit the fees and funding webpage.

Please note: The University cannot sponsor international students who require a Tier 4 visa to study in the UK for this specific course. International students can study on a part-time basis only if they are in the UK with a different type of visa (other than Tier 4 Child/General) that allows them to undertake part-time study and their visa does not expire prior to the end date of the proposed course of study.

Please contact admissions@rau.ac.uk before you apply to confirm your eligibility.