Course details

Summary

A Lincoln University Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) qualification will give you the opportunity to not only challenge yourself to new levels of thinking and problem solving, it will give you the knowledge and skills to create new land-based knowledge that will ultimately benefit society. Our goal is to provide you with a PhD programme that will have you working alongside professional and scientific individuals and organisations, and industry, throughout New Zealand and the world. There are many, many complex issues facing the land-based sectors across the globe and Lincoln's PhDs are helping to address them. You are challenged to join these great minds to make a difference.

The Department of Agricultural Sciences is responsible for teaching and research in the plant and animal sciences, and in crop and livestock production. The teaching and research brings a strategic and applied focus to technologies of particular relevance to New Zealand’s including export-orientated land-based industries.

The range of research conducted is extensive including:

• Alternative dryland pasture species
• Animal nutrition
• Conversion of forests into pasture
• Economic viability of New Zealand farming systems
• Grain legume agronomy
• Nitrogen fixation and nitrogen cycling
• Shelter on dairy farms
• Sustainability in farming systems.

Summary of Regulations
• Students are required to complete three-years of research. Coursework is not usually a component. However, students may be asked to complete some courses, or choose to do so, especially if unfamiliar with some aspect of the proposed research topic
• Defend the PhD via an oral examination after it has been independently assessed.

Entry criteria

A relevant postgraduate honours degree with second class honours, division one or its equivalent. And must have a substantial amount of research in the qualifying degree. They should also have obtained an overall CAE score of 176, with no individual component less than 169; PTE of 58 overall score - with no communicative skill less than 50; Lincoln University English Language of GCAE or LU EL 70%; NZCEL of Level 5 (Academic or Professional Endorsement).