Comprehensively form graduates in Agronomy Engineers through the use of technologies that allow them to generate projects of rural development to solve problems of agricultural production with sustainable perspective and social responsibility.
The applicant for the program must have high school degree or equivalent, preferably in the areas of physical-mathematics, chemical-biologicals or their equivalent and have knowledge of General Culture and Information Technologies.
For more information, please visit www.ugto.mx/admision.
The study plan (2015) is composed by 50 learning units with a total of 269 credits. Its modality is a credit system (areas: general, basic, common, disciplinary basic, deepening and complementary); the school periods are semiannual; and the new entry process is in January and August respectively.
- First Enrollment
- Botany
- Mathematics
- Agrophysics
- Chemistry
- Politic, Economic, Social and Agricultural Context
- Agricultural Practices I
- Introduction to College life
- LU or General area activity I
- Second Enrollment
- Systemic botany
- Soil use, handling and fertility
- Water use and handling
- Vegetable biochemistry*
- Agrometeorology
- Livestock production and reproduction
- LU or General Area activity 2
- LU or area activity
- Complementary 1
- Third Enrollment
- Watering engineering
- Agricultural administration
- Introduction to Vegetable production
- Microbiology of soils
- Vegetable physiology
- Systems of geographic information
- LU or general area activity 3
- LU or complementary area activty 2
- Fourth Enrollment
- Entomology
- Agricultural machinery
- Vegetable nutrition and fertirrigation
- Statistical methods
- Basic Genetics
- Agricultural practices II
- LU or gral. area activity 4
- LU or complementary area activ. 3
- Fifth Enrollment
- Pesticides
- Phytopathology
- Integrated handling of undergrowth
- Genetic improvement of plants
- Research methodology
- Production of basic cultures
- LU or gral. are activity 5
- LU or complementary area ativ 4
- Sixth Enrollment
- Vegetable production
- Agroecology
- Degree seminar
- Sustainable rural development
- Integrated handling of plagues and diseases
- Agricultural practices III
- LU or general area activity 6
- Lu or complementary area actv. 5
- Seventh Enrollment
- Optional
- Optional
- Optional
- Optional
- Optional
- Optional
- LU or general area activity 7
- LU or complementary area actv. 6
- Eighth Enrollment
- Project formulation and evaluation
- Inocuity and biosafety
- Protected agriculture
- Sustainable agriculture
- Fruit-culture*
- Agricultural practices IV
- LU or gral area activity 8
- LU or complementaryu area activ. 7
- Ninth Enrollment
- Professional Practice
Campus Irapuato-Salamanca, Life Sciences Division (DICIVA)
Address: Ex Hacienda El Copal k.m. 9; carretera Irapuato-Silao; A.P. 311; C.P. 36500; Irapuato, Gto.
Phone: (462) 624 18 89
Campus Webpage: www.irapuatosalamanca.ugto.mx
Division Webpage: www.diciva.ugto.mx