Bachelor of Digital Agriculture Digital Agriculture

The Olds College Bachelor of Digital Agriculture program will leverage design thinking, systems thinking, computational thinking, and critical thinking to immerse students in global challenges in agriculture, recognizing the convergence of exponential technologies and diverse perspectives. Students will be prepared to lead disruptive change in agriculture with a grounding in leadership, exponential and entrepreneurial thinking, digital agriculture and technology, agriculture machinery management, agronomy, and data sciences to realize financial and environmental objectives. Students will engage in real-world problems, develop and evaluate optimization solutions, and enhance productivity through the use of emerging digital agriculture technologies and data management practices. Students will internalize responsible and ethical decision making centered on issues of sustainability, including social, economic, and environmental impacts. This program will develop and expand students' self-knowledge, self-monitoring, and leadership and management capacity to ensure an ability to engage in continuous professional growth and become effective leaders within multidisciplinary teams in an ever changing digital agriculture industry.