Agriculture with Livestock Science (with Foundation Year) - BSc (Hons)

Hartpury University

Rural campus with good views and surroundings. feels like there is too much emphasis on the college and their needs. Would be better if the nurse and wellbeing services were available 24/7 not just some days and hours. Accommodation is alright but there are heating and plumbing issues. Not enough car parking space but nearly always getting emails saying to park elsewhere when there are no spaces left.

Hartpury is located on a farm which gives us agricultural students the opportunities to do lots of practical work, which teaches us future farmers how to identify a problems on farm and what decisions can we make to solve that problem for example, doing a field walk and we find disease in a crop, we will be given a list of pesticides and biological control methods to choose from and as a group we will discuss what would be the best method to control the disease and are what are the options to prevent the disease , which gives us students real life experiences , which I find very useful for my future. My only issue with Hartpury is the parking situation.

• Unique combination of animal science and technology: Hartpury provides a rare opportunity to combine hands-on animal behaviour studies with cutting-edge AI research. • Excellent facilities: The Animal Behaviour Labs, farm, and equine centres give real-world data to apply AI and computer vision tools effectively. • Supportive lecturers and researchers: The staff are genuinely passionate about both animal welfare and innovative research methods — they encourage independent thinking and collaboration. • Beautiful campus environment: Being surrounded by animals and nature inspires research ideas and makes studying feel meaningful and connected to real life. • Industry links and research focus: Hartpury’s partnerships and projects help bridge academic study with real-world applications, from animal welfare technology to behaviour monitoring systems. More AI and data science modules: Expanding programming and machine learning options would help students like me integrate AI skills more deeply into animal science. • Access to larger datasets: Having shared, annotated animal behaviour datasets would make AI-based projects more powerful and practical. • Interdisciplinary collaboration: Encouraging more joint work between animal science, computing, and environmental science students would lead to more innovative projects. • Advanced computing resources: Upgrading access to GPU-powered systems for training AI models would benefit research productivity. • Extra workshops on tech tools: Sessions on tools like Python, TensorFlow, and image recognition software would help bridge theory and practical AI application.

Beautiful and peaceful location with lovely walks, a farm and many different animals to see. New modern restaurant and eating facilities and well stocked library. Good support with 1 to 1s available to book for placements and career advice, as well as academic workshops. Sport is limited to mainly academy sports so casual, recreational sport is limited, especially team sports.

The space and instructors are amazing and I’m happy to be apart of Hartpury, but some support can be better things like the wellbeing drop ins