Diploma of Agribusiness
UndergraduateTAS-AGB-DIP2025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
Boost your career options in contemporary agriculture
Developed with experts, this gateway into the industry covers agribusiness essentials. You’ll get to know current commercial aspects of agriculture. Broaden your options beyond farm management. Explore the value chain, financial concepts, and more.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Applications close
- 9 Feb 2025,
- 6 July 2025
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 1 year full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 8
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Diploma of Agribusiness
About this degree
On successful completion of this program, the student will be able to:
- Analyse knowledge, skills, behaviours and attributes required to develop and enhance career opportunities in agribusiness
- Describe the application of business concepts for contemporary agriculture
- Reflect and communicate practical management approaches for changing agribusiness environments
- Use cognitive, creative and technical skills to enable agribusiness to be agile and adaptable in digital and innovative landscapes
The Diploma of Agribusiness is an industry-focused program designed for people wanting to develop their agricultural knowledge and business acumen that meets the demand for professionals in this industry. It is ideal for those currently working in agriculture and looking to move into leadership and management roles and equally can provide a foundation for those looking to enter the industry.
The Diploma in Agribusiness aims to prepare you to become dynamic, creative and adaptable practitioners with the skills and knowledge of high-level planning, resource allocation, distribution strategies and technological innovation within the industry. Sustainability is a key thread throughout the program, where you will consider challenges through a sustainable solutions lens.
Our program combines business studies in management, finance, marketing and planning with technical studies in agriculture.
The content has been developed in consultation with industry experts and they are actively involved in its delivery. Conducted online, study can fit around work and family commitments, while you become part of a community who bring your life and work experience together to build networks for the future.
Recommended study pattern
For students studying full-time, the following study pattern is recommended.
8 subjects including:
4 Core Subjects
- TAS-ZAA132 Managing People
- TAS-ZAB111 Agribusiness Fundamentals
- TAS-ZAB116 Value Chain Management in Agribusiness
- TAS-ZAB119 Principles of Weed, Pest and Disease Management
4 UTAS Electives
Award requirements
Satisfactory completion of 8 subjects, as required in the schedule, within 1-3 years from commencement.
Degrees are usually made up of core subjects and electives. Some degrees include a choice of majors, so you can focus your studies on a specialisation.
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Indicative total fee $11,600
The amount shown here is indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.
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Entry requirements
- Partially completed an undergraduate course at Diploma level or higher (or equivalent). You must have completed at least one subject of study (equivalent to 12.5 UTAS credit points), at 100 level or higher and which may include 100 level subjects completed in the UTAS Diploma of University Studies. If you have failed any subjects, your application may be subject to further review before an offer is made; OR
- Completed the UTAS University Preparation Program (or an equivalent qualification offered by an Australian University).
Successful completion of one OUA open access subject of study (equivalent to 12.5 UTAS credit points) at the equivalent AQF level, unless otherwise specified.
Completed the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) or an equivalent qualification.
Completion of a Certificate III or higher (or equivalent) in any discipline
Applicants without senior secondary, tertiary or VET / TAFE study can complete a personal competency statement.
Applicants may be eligible for an offer if they have relevant work and / or life experiences which demonstrate a capacity to succeed in this program.
You may be eligible for advanced standing (ie. credit) of up to 50 credit points if you have completed a cognate Undergraduate Certificate or similar program at this university or other approved tertiary institution. Cognate Undergraduate Certificate programs for Z1A Diploma of Agribusiness are:
- Z0D Undergraduate Certificate in Agriculture
- Z0L Undergraduate Certificate in Agribusiness
- Z0M Undergraduate Certificate in Small Business, and
- Z0P Undergraduate Certificate in Fermentation.
The following non-cognate Undergraduate Certificate may also be considered for articulation into the Diploma of Agribusiness with up to 50 credit points of advanced standing:
- 30C Undergraduate Certificate in Climate Accounting.
Students who complete Z1A Diploma of Agribusiness may articulate into one of the Bachelor of Business or other Bachelor degrees with up to 100 credit points of advanced standing.
Career opportunities
The Food and Agribusiness sequence will provide you versatile skills and knowledge, hence employment opportunities beyond the farm management in roles such as agribusiness accountant, agribusiness banking officer, agricultural policy officer, agribusiness consultant, livestock officer, agribusiness analyst, international development officer, agripreneur and many more.
As the agricultural industry undergoes rapid transformation, agribusiness companies, including the major banks, are seeking employees skilled in business, management and finance, and who have technical agricultural training. There is also increasing demand for better-trained managers of large agricultural enterprises.
The structure of the Agribusiness course was designed in response to formal consultation with an array of industry stakeholders, including employers and prospective students. In parallel, the course was designed in consideration of societal conditions in Tasmania that necessitate the provision of alternative educational pathways for non-traditional post-secondary students.
New to agribusiness and never worked in the industry before?
For those graduates new to agribusiness, roles including trainee positions, team leaders, field officers and researchers are likely.
Already working and want to fast track or leverage off past experience?
For those graduates already working in agriculture, the Diploma of Agribusiness should enable graduates to progress from assistant positions to managerial roles, lead a small team, become a field officer, research team member or salesperson and liaise better with suppliers and/ or customers.
Potential types of employers:
- Upstream of the farm: suppliers of seed, fertiliser, chemicals, machinery, stockfeed, labour, finance, business advisory, transport, consultancy, and specialist services such as harvesting contractors.
- Primary production: cropping, horticulture, animal based enterprises, aquaculture, pharmaceuticals, wineries, farm-based tourism.
- Downstream of the farm: processors and value-adders, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, transport and storage operations, logistics, consultants.
Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
Agricultural Consultants | N/A^ | N/A^ |
Crop Farmers | N/A^ | Down 15.5% |
Livestock Farmers | N/A^ | Up 3.1% |
Mixed Crop and Livestock Farmers | N/A^ | Down 5.2% |
Supply, Distribution and Procurement Managers | Over $120K | Up 12.6% |
^ There is no data available
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