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School 5

School of Agriculture, Food Systems and Agricultural Technology

The largest employer, reinvented

Agriculture employs the majority of Ugandans and remains the single largest source of new jobs on the continent, yet it is taught almost everywhere as though it were a low technology sector waiting to be escaped. Forward University refuses that framing. This School builds agricultural roboticists, food process engineers, genomic breeders and agrifood data analysts who will move African agriculture from subsistence to industrial value addition and export. Every programme in the School is anchored to a working farm, a processing line or a live market, and every graduate leaves having measurably improved the yield, quality, margin or loss rate of a real enterprise.

Departments
6
Degree programmes
12
Credit units
1,650
Award levels
3

Source: Curriculum Compendium, Path One, page 528.

Departments and degrees

6 departments, 12 degree programmes

Every degree below is published in the Curriculum Compendium with a full term-by-term and block-by-block curriculum, programme learning outcomes and an employment thesis.

Department of Precision Agriculture and Agricultural Robotics

Sensing, drones, autonomous field machinery, irrigation intelligence and farm decision systems.

2 degrees
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Department of Food Science, Safety and Value Addition

Food processing, preservation, packaging, safety systems and industrial food engineering.

3 degrees
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Department of Agribusiness Intelligence and Markets

Market analytics, agricultural finance, cooperatives, export standards and digital trade.

3 degrees
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Department of Animal Science and Intelligent Aquaculture

Livestock systems, animal health analytics, feed science and modern aquaculture.

1 degree
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Department of Crop Science and Plant Genomics

Breeding, seed systems, plant genomics, soil science and climate resilient crops.

1 degree
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Department of Livestock and Aquaculture Systems

1 degree
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Cross departmental, School of Agriculture, Food Systems and Agricultural Technology

1 degree
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Open now · First accreditation wave

Programmes accepting applications

Showing 12 of 12 programmes

BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 3 years (6 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness Analytics and Digital Trade

The binding constraint on African agriculture is increasingly not production but the market: price discovery, aggregation, quality grading, finance, logistics and the paperwork of cross border trade. The African Continental Free Trade Area ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 3 years (6 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness and Value Chain Management

The binding constraint on African agriculture is increasingly not production but the market: price discovery, aggregation, quality grading, finance, logistics and the paperwork of cross border trade. The African Continental Free Trade Area makes the next decade decisive, and the region trains too ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Bachelor of Science in Animal Science and Intelligent Aquaculture

Demand for animal protein in East Africa is rising faster than production, and the deficit is being met by imports. Meanwhile fish farming, which the region has the water and climate to dominate, remains largely artisanal. This programme co...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Bachelor of Science in Crop Science with Plant Genomics

Climate change is outrunning the pace of conventional breeding, and the crops that matter most to African food security — banana, cassava, millet, sorghum, beans — receive a fraction of the global breeding investment given to temperate cere...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Bachelor of Science in Food Science and Processing Engineering

Uganda exports raw commodities and imports processed food made from them, and the gap between those two facts is the country's single largest unclaimed industrial opportunity. Closing it requires food scientists and processing engineers who can turn a crop into a safe, compliant, shelf stable ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Bachelor of Science in Food Science, Safety and Value Addition

Uganda exports raw commodities and imports processed food made from them. The gap between those two sentences is the country's single largest unclaimed industrial opportunity, and it is not closed by policy alone: it is closed by food techn...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Bachelor of Science in Livestock and Aquaculture Systems

Livestock and Aquaculture Systems is published in the Complete Programme Directory as part of the second accreditation wave: 176 competency units over 4 years (8 semesters), sited in the Livestock and Aquaculture Systems department. The full curriculum volume is in preparation for submission to the National Council for Higher Education, so the term and block structures, learning outcomes and employment thesis are not yet published here.

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
BSc (Hons)Hybrid · 4 years (8 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Bachelor of Science in Precision Agriculture and Agricultural Robotics

Agricultural robotics has just been named a distinct undergraduate discipline in the world's largest higher education system, and the reason is arithmetic rather than fashion: farm labour is becoming scarcer and more expensive everywhere, i...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
PhDHybrid · 3 to 5 years · Intake August 2027

Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural Innovation

Doctoral research in agricultural technology, crop and animal improvement, food systems and agricultural data science, anchored in African production realities. The programme requires peer reviewed publication before submission and a transl...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
MScHybrid · 18 months (3 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Master of Science in Agrifood Systems Intelligence

Agricultural transformation programmes across the continent are commissioned, funded and evaluated by people who cannot interrogate the data underneath them. This programme produces the senior analyst who can model a value chain end to end,...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
MScCampus · 18 months (3 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Master of Science in Food Technology and Industrial Processing

Scaling a food product from a pilot batch to an industrial line, and keeping it compliant enough to export, is where most African food manufacturing ambition fails. This programme is built for that specific failure: process scale up, plant ...

Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis
MScHybrid · 18 months (3 semesters) · Intake August 2027

Master of Science in Precision Agriculture

Farming is becoming a data and technology discipline, with sensing, robotics, remote sensing and machine learning turning agriculture into something that can be measured and optimised field by field. The region is acquiring the technology faster than the people who can make it pay in African ...

Includes 0 months paid work-integrated learning

Programme and employment thesis

Coming in future intakes

Planned, not yet accredited

These programmes are designed but will not open until the relevant accreditation wave is complete. We list them so the pipeline is visible, not to imply you can apply.

  • BSc Food Science and Processing Engineering · Future intake
  • BSc Agribusiness and Value Chain Management · Future intake
  • BSc Livestock and Aquaculture Systems · Future intake
  • MSc Precision Agriculture · Future intake
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