Employment directions and prospects for agricultural graduate students

1. Employment prospects for agronomy majors

Agriculture majors train students with basic theories and basic knowledge in crop production, crop diseases, crop genetic breeding, and seed production and management. and basic skills, senior scientific and technical talents who can engage in agronomy-related technology and design, promotion and development, operation and management, teaching and scientific research in agriculture and other related departments or units.

2. Employment prospects for agronomy majors

With the country’s emphasis on agriculture, the employment prospects for agronomy majors are getting better and better. Graduates can generally work in scientific research, production and management institutions such as agriculture, gardening and botanical institutes, or they can engage in work in soil and water conservation, desert management, gardening, wildlife and nature reserves.

There are few agricultural graduates and competition is relatively low. Taking Jiangsu Province as an example, only Nanjing Agricultural University and Yangzhou University have graduates of agricultural master's degrees, and the number of graduates each year does not exceed 500. Compared with majors such as human resources and administrative management, which are available in every school, the number of master's degree graduates in the province is There are tens of thousands of people. Therefore, the competition ratio for agricultural positions generally does not exceed 1:100, and positions with a score above 90 are only below 1:30, and not all applicants take the exam seriously, so there are less than 10 people who really compete.