2024-2025

• Terms & conditions for payment of fees 2024-25
• RAU refund policy 2024-25
• Terms & conditions for residences 2024-25

2023-2024

Assessment regulations

• Section 1: General Rules for Academic Assessment
• Section 2: Regulations for Assessment, Progression & Awards

Teaching Quality Handbook

The Royal Agricultural University is proud to include a number of industry specialists, in the areas of agriculture and food production, real estate and land management, equine science and animal husbandry, and business and innovation, amongst its body of academic staff.

We offer expertise in the following areas:

You will need a visa if you:

• Are not a UK national
• Are stateless (you don’t have a nationality)
• Hold only a non-national travel document
• Hold a passport issued by an authority that is not recognised in the UK

Our visa support team will be there to guide and support you through each step of the process.

The RAU is committed to providing our students with value for money across all areas of university life.

The Governing Council, Finance & Estates Committee, Vice-Chancellor, Executive Team, and senior managers are all committed to ensuring that value for money lies at the core of our decision making. All proposals explicity require that value is effectively managed and is implicit in all proposals requiring committee consideration or decision.

Trustees

Details of Trustees interests to be updated shortly. This document will include details of other trustee positions.

View Governor profiles.

Public benefit

Teaching and learning

Details of the RAU's public benefit statement on teaching and learning can be found here: RAUs Public Benefit Statement on Learning Teaching (PDF, 505KB)

The governing body consists of between six and 12 Independent Governors, up to two co-opted Governors, the Vice-Chancellor, one Student Governor and one Staff Governor.

The Governing Council has at least five formal meetings and a strategy day each year. No members of the Governing Council receive any remuneration for the work they perform. The Governing Council has a number of committees that report to it. These are formally constituted with terms of reference and delegated powers.

There is an increasing drive to bridge the gap between science and practice in the agricultural sector. Increasingly complicated challenges in agriculture require collaborative, complementary, and co-created knowledge and innovation that is ready to implement in practice. This requires a bottom up approach with farmers, foresters and other rural businesses working with researchers to action innovation. These approaches have been actioned under H2020 EU funding streams through the development of multi-actor projects.

Creating a European innovation in agriculture e-knowledge platform.

EURAKNOS is a European project, funded by H2020, to maximise the agricultural innovation knowledge base by building an e-knowledge platform to enable the rural community easier access to best practices from all EU H2020 Thematic Networks.

Below you'll find copies of previous postgraduate offer guides. These are updated annually and the latest version can be found on the Important Information about your Offer web page.