Course Title: Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Horticulture
Note: This course is open for Advanced Entry applications only.
This course is suitable for you if you wish to make a sustainable, positive impact on the environment, while being active and outdoors in nature, caring for landscapes, parks, open spaces and the urban public realm. It examines and responds to growing concerns about the quality of our food and the environmental cost of its production. If you’re artistic and creative there is culinary and medicinal plants, and food product development, while in social and therapeutic horticulture you develop the skills to guide clients in the therapeutic potential of horticulture and the natural environment. If you’re entrepreneurial in your approach to horticulture, entrepreneurship and enterprise development gives you the platform and skills to bring your unique ideas to life.
In this programme, you’ll gain a thorough knowledge of horticulture science, encompassing life sciences, the chemical and physical sciences, and the mathematical and statistical techniques involved data analytics and in designing research experiments in mixed methods research dissertation.
Our hands-on teaching approach will give you opportunities to develop skills through real-life practical projects engaging with real life problem solving, while specialising in areas that interest you most.
The duration of this course is 1 year full-time.
IT Requirements:
MEDIUM spec (minimum) (i.e. able to run Win 10, an AV solution and Office comfortably. Be able to use Wi-fi and camera to attend online classes). MS Windows 10 based laptops are recommended.
Please search for the TU Dublin offer on the HEA website www.heanet.ie/store
Holders of an appropriate Bachelor of Science in Horticulture should apply to the CAO in the year for which admission is sought. Entry is subject to normal entry requirements.
To qualify for Advanced Entry applicants must be currently studying, completing, or have successfully completed, studies at Level 6, 7 or 8 in a Higher Education Institution (HEI) or an equivalent, in a related area. You must demonstrate by providing transcripts of results that you have achieved the learning outcomes for each stage you wish to advance past, for example:
- For entry to Year 4, you must demonstrate that you have met the learning outcomes for Years 1, 2, and 3.
If English is not your first language you will need to provide evidence of your English language proficiency as detailed on our website.
On completion of the L8 Honours programme, students avail of a variety of opportunities with the OPW, Local authorities public realm, working as parks and landscape officers, contract managers with large landscape firms, some work in nurseries, gardens centres others in the Therapeutic Horticulture sector, while others choose an entrepreneurial route.
- Organic and Conventional Food Production
- Parks and Garden Management
- Landscape Design
- Teaching Horticulture
- Retail Horticulture
- Nurseries
- Social and Therapeutic Horticulture
- Entrepreneurial opportunities in Horticulture
Advanced Entry applications are accepted to this course. For further information on how to make an Advanced Entry application, please visit our CAO Hub. A full list of courses open for Advanced Entry are listed on the CAO website.
On graduation, you may continue to postgraduate study at TU Dublin or elsewhere.