Marcus Oldham College has announced it will restructure undergraduate degrees to reduce course time, enabling graduates into the workforce more quickly.
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Effective from 2020, the changes include the Bachelor of Business (Agriculture) going from four to three years, and the Bachelor of Business (Agribusiness) down from three to two years.
The changes are made possible by the addition of an extra teaching period per year from two semesters to three trimesters running from February to December.
"As the leader in agriculture and agribusiness education, we are always looking for ways to enhance the Marcus Oldham experience whilst ensuring our students have a competitive edge both nationally and globally," Marcus Oldham principal Dr Simon Livingstone said.
"We are seeing a real boom in agriculture and demand for qualified agriculture professionals has never been stronger.
"By accelerating our agriculture and agribusiness degrees, graduates will be entering the workforce a year earlier."
He said the changes wouldn't compromise the integrity of the courses.
"Staying exactly the same will be the volume of overall course work and assessment, course content and learning outcomes, pre-entry experience as a prerequisite to the course, immersive delivery with a focus on pastoral care and tuition support, practical work integrated into learning, reflective practice of course content and study tours, as well as practical placement and case study learning," he said.
