The School of Agronomy was created in October 1975, and its academic activities started a year later in the first semester.
In order to get a Licentiate degree in Agronomy Engineering, students have to complete all the academic courses. However, the School also gives the possibility of obtaining a Bachelor degree in the same major.
The main purpose of this School is to create Agronomy Engineering professionals considering this as the science that studies farming, animal production and the relationship between them. The purpose of this science is to develop techniques and technologies able to increase the standard of farming and fish production systems which ensure the production’s quality, efficiency and profitability to preserve the soil fertile and maintain the environment.
Students are to develop a theoretical- practical knowledge through a “Learning-Producing” strategy. At the same time, this procedure encourages consciousness of environmental and socioeconomic contexts based on an approach of systems.
Our mission is to contribute to the tropic agricultural sustainable development through the formation of human resource, investigation, technology transfer, and production to foster the food security. Our vision is to form human resource, and to generate relevant technology to satisfy with academic excellence the agricultural sector demands based on a permanent self-evaluation process. In that way, the School keeps an uninterrupted national and international projection.
Furthermore, it has the responsibility and compromise to offer a high quality dynamic education to the national community. That is why, in agreement with the demands of the current and future society, this School has always been immerse in self evaluation processes, and at present is working on its Accreditation proceedings with SINAES.
Academic School Director: Arnoldo Gadea