School of Agriculture and Biotechnology

The School of Agriculture and Biotechnology (SAGR) is one of the premier schools at the university of Eldoret renown for being among the topmost in delivering academics programs, agricultural research, innovation and extension services. The school offers competitive agricultural-based courses tailor-made to satisfy the growing market demand in agriculture. These programs are offered at various levels as short courses and certificates, Diploma, Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate. It hosts six functional departments that include; Seed, Crop and Horticultural Sciences (SCHS), Animal Science, Family and Consumer Sciences, Soil Science, Biotechnology, and Agricultural Economics & Rural Development. The departments have come a long way since its inception in expanding and strengthening its programs with the latter being recently constituted to address the rising demand in agricultural socioeconomic, agribusiness and rural extension. A total of 7 short-courses, 4 certificate, 10 diplomas, 1 post-graduate diploma, 12 bachelors, 14 masters and 9 doctorate programs are offered in the school. New programs have been constituted and are in the pipeline for approval by the senate. These include; Ph D program in Community Nutrition, M Sc. in Agriculture and Gender, B Sc in Agricultural Information System and B Sc in agricultural community development.

The School is involved in a number of research activities and extension services through collaborations with government, non-governmental research institutions and private service providers to test and deliver cutting edge technologies and products to the farming communities. These collaborations have seen a number of MoUs signed between the partners and the university which has enabled the school achieve invaluable benefits rippling from improved infrastructure (laboratory and equipment), awarding of M Sc. and P hD graduate scholarships and securing greater networks for undergraduate student industrial attachments. In a bid to address the emerging issues, the school has continually embraced multi-disciplinary research approaches through strengthening linkages within and outside the school that has yielded remarkable output and outcomes. To foster capacity building of the community, the school had organized a number of workshops and trainings to communicate findings and demonstrate new technologies.

SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

1.      Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

a)     Major in Crop Science

b)     Major in Agricultural Economics

c)     Major in Animal Science       

d)    Major in Horticulture

2.      Bachelor of Science in Apparel and Fashion Design

3.      Bachelor of Science in Food Science and Nutrition

MASTERS PROGRAMMES

1.      MSc Agricultural Economics

2.      MSc Agriculture Extension Education

3.      MSc Agronomy

4.      MSc Animal Production

5.      MSc Apparel and Fashion Design

6.      MSc Dairy Production

7.      MSc Meat Production

8.      MSc Community Nutrition

9.      MSc Plant Protection

10. MSc Soil Science

11. MSc Plant Breeding and Biotechnology

12. MSc Animal Nutrition

13. MSc Horticulture

14. MSc Seed Science and Technology

DOCTORATE PROGRAMMES

1.      PhD - Agricultural Economics

2.      PhD – Agricultural Entomology

3.      PhD - Crop Eco-Physiology

4.      PhD – Agricultural Extension Education

5.      PhD - Plant Pathology

6.      PhD - Seed Science

7.      PhD - Soil Science

8.      PhD - Weed Science

9.      PhD - Plant Breeding

10. PhD – Horticulture

DIPLOMA PROGRAMMES

1     Diploma in Agricultural Economics

2     Diploma in Agriculture Extension Education

3     Diploma in Food Science Nutrition

4     Diploma in Agriculture

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMMES

1.        Postgraduate Diploma in Seed Science and Technology