Duration
3 years full time / 6 years part time
Mode (Location)
On campus (Parkville)
Intake
March, July
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Fees
Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) available
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Entry requirements
72.25 - Lowest selection rank 2026 (guide only)
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Entry schemes
Access Melbourne is available
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Career outcomes
Overview
From farms to finance, from fieldwork to policy – your agriculture degree can take you anywhere.
The Bachelor of Agriculture doesn’t lock you into just one path. This discipline connects to almost everything: food, business, science, environment, global policy – to name a few. Designed with industry, this degree prepares you for roles across countless sectors, industries, and interests. You’ll graduate ready to flourish, working across systems that produce food, manage resources, respond to real challenges, and shape our world.
Key career outcomes
- Work on the ground. You may work in food and fibre production, sustainable agricultural practice, water management, biosecurity, animal welfare and crop development, contributing to how agricultural systems operate in real-world environments.
- Big-picture decision making. Career pathways include agribusiness, agricultural finance, commodity trading, sales, marketing, and policy roles, where you can work on how agricultural systems are managed, funded and shaped.
- Level-up your learning. If you’re not finished learning yet, you might continue into honours or graduate study in areas such as agricultural sciences, agribusiness, animal science, crop production, food sustainability, food science and veterinary medicine.
Where can the Bachelor of Agriculture take you?
This degree can lead to opportunities across agriculture and related industries in Australia and internationally. You’ll graduate with knowledge of agricultural systems and practical learning experience, supporting pathways into production, business, policy, research and environmental management roles.
Possible sectors include:
- Agriculture and farming
- Agribusiness
- Animal welfare
- Banking and finance
- Biosecurity
- Food and fibre production
- Government and policy
- International aid
- Post-farm processing and marketing
- Research and development
- Water management
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Further study and research opportunities
Combine undergraduate and graduate study at the University of Melbourne to unlock limitless opportunities. Through our graduate courses you develop specialist expertise while broadening your perspectives.
Many majors within the Bachelor of Agriculture provide pathways to specialist graduate study, including masters programs linked to professional accreditation. Combining undergraduate and graduate study allows you to deepen expertise while expanding career opportunities across agriculture and related disciplines.
We offer more than 400 graduate courses across a broad range of disciplines including a specialist science graduate school.
The Bachelor of Agriculture offers several options for further study, including a graduate degree package for the Juris Doctor, and pathways into the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
Through regular connection with peers, researchers and our global network of industry partners, you’ll develop strong connections with community and industry that open the door to an outstanding future.
Profile
Tushar Ramesh
"The professors, tutors and students are incredibly passionate, making studying less a 'chore' and more something to be engaged with. What we study makes you realise the Australian agriculture industry is incredibly efficient and innovative at what it does on a global scale, and the knowledge and skills developed here are often ahead of the curve.
The University of Melbourne stood out to me for the fact that Dookie campus was an integrated part of the Bachelor of Agriculture. The opportunity to spend 6 months to a year of my degree on-farm and gain a hands-on understanding of what is involved in agronomy and crop science is something other institutions did not offer. For someone coming from an urban background with very little exposure to life in agriculture, it was a chance to fill up a knowledge and experience deficit."
Graduate pathways
Once you've completed your undergraduate degree, you can go on to gain employment or begin a graduate degree and work towards a professional qualification such as law, engineering or medicine. Or you could join our graduate research community and contribute to our world-changing research.
Your graduate degree will be internationally recognised, and set you apart from those who study a traditional Australian single or double degree.
Explore the graduate pathways available once you complete your undergraduate degree here.