Degree and career prospects

With a completed Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Sciences with a Horticultural Sciences major, many paths are open to you.

But in which areas can you work with a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Sciences? What exactly can you do with your skills? Or would you perhaps prefer to start a Master’s degree program after all? We present the wealth of opportunities here and give you an outlook on potential jobs, employers, and Master’s degree programs.

Foto: Nahaufnahme von Tomatenpflanzenblättern mit Wassertropfen. Die grünen Blätter sind mit kleinen, glänzenden Tropfen bedeckt, die auf die Bewässerung oder Regen hindeuten.

Diverse and interesting career possibilities

Food security, sustainability, resource conservation, climate resilience, and digitalization are placing new demands on production horticulture. In the following areas, university horticultural sciences and the academics trained there are of essential importance.

We see you in the following positions and activities, for example:

Conversion of agriculture and further development of horticultural production systems
Improving sustainability and resource conservation in horticultural value chains
Increasing the degree of self-sufficiency
Digitalization of horticultural production
Plant breeding and plant protection
Plant nutrition and nutrient management
Adapting horticultural production systems to climate change
Mitigating climate change by changing horticultural production, e.g., reducing the use of peat and building up humus in horticultural soils
Reducing food losses along the horticultural value chain
Preserving and increasing biodiversity (flora and fauna) through ecosystem services
Technology development for climate-resilient, more sustainable horticultural production systems and value chains
Shaping sustainable transformations at the societal level in the context of real laboratories in horticulture
Mitigating the effects of climate change, especially in cities.

Potential employers include, for example:

Management positions in companies in the horticultural value chain (including upstream and trade)
Product consulting in the horticultural supply industry
Advisory activities in the official advisory service or in advisory circles for horticultural businesses
Work at universities, colleges, and other educational institutions (teaching and research institutes, vocational schools, further education and training institutions) in teaching and research
UManagement functions in the administration of the EU, federal government, federal states, and districts as well as in private research institutions
Politics, policy advising, and administration
Banking, insurance sector
Training of gardeners and master gardeners at horticultural vocational and technical schools
Journalistic, advisory, and occupational-political activities in the media, associations, and organizations
Development cooperation

Master’s programs

Once you have completed your Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Sciences with a major in Horticultural Sciences, you can either do a Master’s degree in the strongly research-oriented Crop Sciences degree program or choose a degree program with an ecological focus such as Organic Agriculture and Food Systems. You also have very good qualifications for the Agricultural Engineering and Advisory and Innovation Services in Agri-Food Systems majors. Or if you would like to develop further in the economic direction, you can opt for Agribusiness or Agricultural Economics.

Depending on your strengths and areas of interest, you decide which subject is right for you following your Bachelor’s degree. With a Master’s degree, you can, for example, aspire to a managerial role in research and development or a business, or start a scientific career.
At the University of Hohenheim, you can also acquire further qualifications# with the following Master’s programs and majors:

At the University of Hohenheim, you can gain further qualifications with the following Master’s degree programs:

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