Rural Enterprise And Agri-business in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland

Rural Enterprise And Agri-business in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology

This programme will enable you to improve your knowledge and understanding of general business and to develop business skills, particularly as they apply to the rural enterprise and agri-business sector.

Career Opportunities

There are many opportunities for graduates of this programme. The targeted roles, in addition to many returning to the farming sector or part-time farming, include:

• Employment within the farm advisory service
• Education and training services
• Financial institutions
• Sales, Marketing and PR agencies
• Entrepreneurship
• Development agencies
• Farm management and cooperative consultancy groups
• Public sector organisations
• Charities
• Farming organisations
• Conservation bodies
• Home and foreign governments

Follow-on Studies: 

Graduates can transfer to the Bachelor of Business (Honours) in Rural Enterprise and Agribusiness in GMIT. Students can also transfer to other degree programmes at colleges and universities in Ireland and elsewhere. Such transfers are dependent on results and on comparability of courses. Linkages with EU colleges open up exciting possibilities for further study.

Essential Information: 

• Year one of the course is common with the Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and Environmental Management and is based at our GMIT Mountbellew campus (four days per week) and at our Galway campus (Dublin road) one day per week. At the end of year one, students can choose whether they wish to pursue the Bachelor of Business in Rural Enterprise and Agri-business or the Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and Environmental Management.
• Year two is based at our GMIT Mountbellew campus (three days per week) and at our Galway campus (Dublin road) two days per week.
• Students must do a three-month industry work placement in year two working in an agri business.
• Students reside at Mountbellew for the first two years.
• Year three is spent at the GMIT Galway campus.
• On successful completion of years 1 and 2 of the programme students may apply to Teagasc for a letter of equivalence to a QQI Green Cert (Specific Purpose Certificate in Farm Business Administration).