Why study a degree with us?

With a base in the Agriculture Building on our award-winning parkland campus, plus 800 hectares of mixed farming land and woodlands spread throughout the surrounding area, you'll benefit from our substantial first-class agricultural teaching and learning resources in a modern university setting.

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Agriculture and Agricultural Business Management students are taught by experts in crop, horticultural and livestock sciences, agri-business and economics, and have the opportunity to work on live projects gathering valuable business skills and experience or developing agricultural science and field work skills.

Meet our Crop Science staff, Animal Sciences staff and Agri-Food Economics and Marketing staff.

Your degree will equip you with the skills, knowledge and understanding for a wide range of careers in agricultural and land-based industries, whether in farm or rural business management, in scientific, technical and advisory services including agronomy or livestock nutrition, or in overseas development work.

Learn more about career opportunities

In your second year, you'll have the opportunity to sign up for our Thrive career mentoring scheme, where you will be partnered with an alumnus. Our mentors are all successful professionals who create an environment where you can discuss your aspirations and test your ideas about graduate life.

Once you graduate, you have the opportunity to become part of our alumni community – a worldwide network of more than 107,000 people.

Being an alumnus of Reading gives you some great benefits, such as:

• alumni discounts for further study
• one-to-one careers advice for a year and ongoing networking opportunities
• subscription to our annual Connected magazine and regular e-newsletters
• access to an online global community
• events and reunions
• Library, sports and accommodation discounts.