MSc Agriculture course Details, Admission, Colleges, Eligibility, Syllabus, Career, Jobs

MSc Agriculture course Admission, Colleges, Eligibility, Syllabus, Exams

Detailed information about M.Sc. Agriculture

This agriculture Industry is one of the good area where students can build there career to the next level, and can earn fame and money based on their work and experience.

If any candidate are interested to do the courses like biochemistry, plant biotechnology, you can purse this MSc in agriculture course.

M.Sc. Agriculture or Master of science in Agriculture is one of the Post Graduation course.

If you have completed B.Sc. in horticulture or plant biotechnology or biochemistry then you are eligible to do MSc Agriculture.

This is almost similar type as B.Sc. degree but the main difference is that you will learn the concept in detail i.e. advance structure.

Course Highlights

Courses in M.Sc. in Agriculture

⇒ M.Sc. in Agriculture

⇒ M.Sc. in Horticulture

⇒ M.Sc. in Forestry

⇒ M.Sc. in Diary Science

⇒ M.Sc. in Plant Pathology

⇒ M.Sc. in Agricultural Biotechnology

⇒ M.Sc. in Fisheries science

Eligibility Criteria for M.Sc. in Agriculture

First of all candidate who are coming to do Master's, they need to fulfill the following criteria's:

He or She should qualify Bachelors Degree in Agriculture or Forestry or Horticulture, from a recognized institute.

He or She should qualify the bachelors degree with at least 50 percent or more marks in aggregate are eligible for doing this Masters in Agriculture course.

M.Sc. in Agriculture Admission Process

First of all the admission process will in two stages

• Through "Management" quota.
• Through "Entrance Examination".

Through Management

If students want to join, if they have plenty of money then they can join in college through this management quota, and the process is very simple and unique.

If you need information about the management quota, then you can consult the administrative department of that college you need to join.

Through Entrance Exams

There are so many entrance exams which will be used to provide admission in the colleges, these below are some of the entrance exams :

1) ICAR AIEEA:

This examination will be conducted by "The Indian Council of Agricultural Research".

All India Entrance Examination for Agriculture i.e. AIEEA

The application will be released in the month of February and exam will be occurred in the month f April.

This is a National Level Examination, and can be written for all, Bachelor degree, Masters degree and Ph.D. etc.

2) AGRICET:

This is the common entrance tests which will be conducted by Acharya N G Ranga Agriculture University.

The application will be released in the month of May or June and exam will be occurred in the month f July.

This is National Level Examination

3) University exams:

Every university will keep there own college entrance examination to give the admission, and in that the students who qualifies that examination, will be given admission in that college.

M.Sc. in Agriculture Fees

Course Level: Post Graduation course

Course Duration: 2 Years

Examination type: Semester System

Course Name: M.Sc. in Agriculture

Course Fees (approx.): ₹16,000 to ₹1,00,000.

Top Agricultural Colleges

1) Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Bengaluru.

2) Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University.

3) Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore.

4) Agriculture University

M.Sc. in Agriculture Job opportunities

This sector is on of the trending sector in India and across the world.

The need for the professional in this sector has increased with growth of the agricultural productivity.

After the completers of M.Sc. degree students can go for Private sector jobs and Government sector Jobs.

If we see the job roles in Government sector jobs, as follows

• Research officer
• Agriculture Officer
• District Superintendent of Agriculture
• Senior research scientist
• Crop management Specialist
• More....

If we see the job roles in Private sector jobs, as follows

• Senior Research Scientist
• Senior Agro-Product Manager
• Senior Plant Breeder
• Literature Researcher
• Crop management Specialist
• More

Advantages and Disadvantages of M.Sc. in Agriculture

Advantages:

Students have different career options.

Every year this agriculture sector is increasing more and in future this course will have high demand.

They have different job roles

The salary for the jobs are very high.

Disadvantages:

Main here is the Job pressure is more.

Salary is fully based on the experience.

It takes to much time to get promotions after getting a government jobs.