EARTH University
Bachelor's Degree in Agronomical Engineering (Agricultural Sciences)
Mercedes, Costa Rica
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline *
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2025
TUITION FEES
USD 2,870 / per month **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Our Spanish program starts by mid-august. You need to apply before June.
** Tuition per year is US$34,410. This cost includes tuition, student services, housing, food and medical insurance.
Introduction
Why Study Agronomy at EARTH University?
Because Only at EARTH University Will You Find:
- A multicultural environment with more than 48 countries represented among students, officials, and faculty.
- More than 30 years of experience preparing young people from America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, who contribute to the sustainable development of their countries and build prosperous and just societies.
- A family that will support you at all times.
- Gender equity: student body is represented by 50% women and 50% men.
- Network of graduates on all continents (network).
- A comprehensive experience that will help you reinforce your ethical values, work as a team, be persistent, and listen to different points of view.
- Two campuses that will allow you to explore the dynamics of soil, rain, humidity, nutrients, flora, and fauna of the dry tropical and humid tropical climates.
- Living in Costa Rica: one of the safest and most stable countries in Latin America, a leader in environmental issues, without an army, and with around 4% of the world's biodiversity.
- Inclusiveness and tolerance: at EARTH you are unique and unique, you will not see discrimination based on age, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion, gender, or nationality. You will be part of a family and a comprehensive and empathetic community.
What do you learn in the classroom?
- More than 70% of our academic program is received in a practical way (outside the classroom).
- At EARTH you will develop as a citizen and global citizen and you will strengthen your capacities interpersonal.
- The program is accredited by the System National Accreditation of Education Superior of Costa Rica (SINAES).
- The training is comprehensive: during the four-year degree, you will work in the development of technical skills for the management of agriculture and natural resources. In addition, you will strengthen your
- leadership, entrepreneurship, responsibility social and environmental, and your professional and personal values.
Student Services
- Availability of staff 24/7.
- Promotion of extracurricular activities: EARTH games, Day of the Children of the Earth, Global Dignity Day, EARTH talks, health promotion, etc.
- Clubs: swimming, yoga, meditation, fitness, Zumba, badminton, ultimate frisbee, basketball, soccer, baseball, volleyball, weights, drawing, painting, popular dance, reading, and muscle strengthening (calisthenics), among others.
- Invitations to participate on international awards.
- Transportation to nearby communities, leaving campus every day at established times.
Accommodation
- Room for two people divided by a module or wall, with single bed, desk, mattress, pillow, chair, wardrobe, and table night for each student.
- Security 24/7.
- Gym, swimming pool, weight room, soccer field, baseball, volleyball, tennis, basketball, games room, and TV room.
- Three forest reserves, a 400-ha commercial banana farm, a botanical garden, an ethnobotanical garden, forms and recreation areas.
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Curriculum
First Year
First trimester
- Introduction to Natural Sciences
- Spanish as a second language*
- Communication and Leadership
- Tropical crops
- Business project: business immersion
- Recreation and comprehensive health I
- Work experience**
- Seminar on orientation to university life I
- Operating Farm Equipment
- Preparatory computer workshop
- Basic math skills I
- 1 week vacation
Second trimester
- Spanish as a second language*
- Professional Communication
- Tropical Crop Production
- Business project: lab. business plan formulation I
- Introduction to the company
- Health Promotion
- Recreation and comprehensive health II
- Work experience**
- Mechanical Skills
- English
- Basic Math Skills II
- Ecological bases for the management of natural resources
- 2 weeks vacation
Third trimester
- Science communication and critical thinking
- Sustainable management of tropical crops
- Business project: lab. business plan formulation II
- Planning and organization of the company
- Recreation and comprehensive health III
- Work experience**
- Opportunities for development and equity
- Seminar on orientation to university life II
- English
- Quantitative Skills for Agricultural Sciences
- Tropical Animal Production End-of-Year Holidays
Second Year
First trimester
- Pest management: weeds
- Business project: business experience
- Accounting and Information Systems
- Work experience**
- Rural development and sustainable communities
- English
- Calculus for Agricultural Sciences I
- Animal reproduction and lactation
- 1-week vacation
Second trimester
- Applied genetics
- Inorganic chemical processes
- Business project: business experience
- Work experience**
- English
- General Statistics I
- 2 weeks vacation
Third trimester
- Organic/Biochemical Chemical Processes
- Pest Management: Entomology
- Pest management: diseases
- Business project: business experience
- Finances
- Physical well-being and health
- Work experience**
- English
- Year-end holidays
Third Year
First trimester
- Business project: business experience
- Project evaluation
- Work experience: agroindustrial
- Spatial information management
- English
- Sustainable farming systems
- Tropical Forestry
- Tropical soil properties
- 1-week vacation
Second trimester
- Physiological processes and postharvest systems
- Applied ecology
- Business project: lab. from
- business closure
- Socio-environmental economics
- Work experience: Community
- English
- Calculus for Agricultural Sciences II
- Preparing for the Internship
- Management and conservation of tropical soils
- 1-week vacation
Third trimester
- Internship
- Year-end holidays
Fourth Year
First trimester
- Food Processing
- Elective
- Professional Experience
- Ethics and Critical Thinking
- English
- Internship Analysis
- Methods and Preparation of Proposals
- Graduation Project
- 1 week vacation
Second trimester
- Physics
- Elective
- Professional Experience
- Irrigation and Drainage
- English
- Graduation Project
- 2 weeks vacation
Third trimester
- Professional Experience
- World Economy and Systems
- Regionals
- Waste Management
- Graduation Project
- Elective 1
- Elective 2
- Graduation
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