GRADUATE Education

The College of Agriculture offers a variety of advanced learning opportunities for graduate students to deepen their expertise in data science and digital agriculture. By engaging in these programs, you will gain the skills necessary to lead in this dynamic field and contribute to the growth and success of digital agriculture, both within Indiana and beyond.

Student working with advance technology on a field

At the graduate level, Purdue Agriculture offers a Graduate Certificate in Spatial Data Science that is 100% online delivery.

Purdue also offers a Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Information Science (GIS) through Purdue Libraries and the School of Information Studies.

 

2024-25 Digital Agriculture and AI Graduate Courses 

Of potential interest to CoA students  
Offered during the Fall Semester  (3 credits course)
Title Subject Description Course #

Irrigation Management and Design 

ABE-Agri & Biol Engineering 

52500 

Computer Models in Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering 

ABE-Agri & Biol Engineering 

 

52700 

Plant Phenotyping Technologies 

ABE-Agri & Biol Engineering 

53000 

Instrumentation and Data Acquisition 

ABE-Agri & Biol Engineering 

53100 

Biosensors: Fundamentals and Applications 

ABE-Agri & Biol Engineering 

56000 

Environmental Informatics 

ABE-Agri & Biol Engineering 

65100 

Mathematical Tools for Agricultural and Applied Economics 

AGEC-Agricultural Economics 

51600 

Introduction To Mathematical Programming 

AGEC-Agricultural Economics 

55200 

Agricultural Marketing and Price Analysis 

AGEC-Agricultural Economics 

50600 

Mathematical Tools for Agricultural and Applied Economics 

AGEC-Agricultural Economics 

 

51600 

Introduction to Mathematical Programming 

AGEC-Agricultural Economics 

55200 

Advanced Plant Genetics 

AGRY-Agronomy 

53000 

Remote Sensing of Land Resources 

AGRY-Agronomy 

54500 

Soil Physics 

AGRY-Agronomy 

56000 

Genomics 

AGRY-Agronomy 

60000 

Quantitative Genetics 

AGRY-Agronomy 

61100 

Statistical Hydrology 

AGRY-Agronomy 

64100 

Population Genetics 

ANSC-Animal Sciences 

51100 

Introduction To the Application of Inferential Statistics 

ASEC-Agric Sciences Educ &Comm 

58200 

Introduction To Agricultural Informatics 

ASM-Agricultural Systems Mgmt 

53200 

Geographic Information System Application 

ASM-Agricultural Systems Mgmt 

54000 

Hands-On Introduction To AI 

ASM-Agricultural Systems Mgmt 

59100 

Bioinformatic Analysis of Genome Scale Data 

BCHM-Biochemistry 

61200 

High Performance Computing for Life Science 

BIOL- Biology  

59500 

Plant Disease Management 

BTNY 

53500 

Internet of Things for Information Technology 

CNIT-Computer and Information Technology 

54600 

Artificial Intelligence 

ECE 

57000 

Machine Learning  

FS-Food Science  

59000 

Remote Sensing Analysis and Applications 

FNR  

55800 

Advanced Spatial Ecology and GIS 

FNR 

58700 

Plant Responses to the Environment 

HORT 

55100 

Information Strategies for Science, Technology, and Engineering Research 

ILS 

59500 

Logistics 

MGMT 

56100 

Data Mining 

MGMT 

57100 

Student working with advance technology on a field

At the graduate level, Purdue Agriculture offers a Graduate Certificate in Spatial Data Science that is 100% online delivery.

Purdue also offers a Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Information Science (GIS) through Purdue Libraries and the School of Information Studies.

 

2024-25 Digital Agriculture and AI Graduate Courses 

Of potential interest to CoA students  
Offered during the Fall Semester  (3 credits course)
Title Subject Description Course #

Irrigation Management and Design 

ABE-Agri & Biol Engineering 

52500 

Computer Models in Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering 

ABE-Agri & Biol Engineering 

 

52700 

Plant Phenotyping Technologies 

ABE-Agri & Biol Engineering 

53000 

Instrumentation and Data Acquisition 

ABE-Agri & Biol Engineering 

53100 

Biosensors: Fundamentals and Applications 

ABE-Agri & Biol Engineering 

56000 

Environmental Informatics 

ABE-Agri & Biol Engineering 

65100 

Mathematical Tools for Agricultural and Applied Economics 

AGEC-Agricultural Economics 

51600 

Introduction To Mathematical Programming 

AGEC-Agricultural Economics 

55200 

Agricultural Marketing and Price Analysis 

AGEC-Agricultural Economics 

50600 

Mathematical Tools for Agricultural and Applied Economics 

AGEC-Agricultural Economics 

 

51600 

Introduction to Mathematical Programming 

AGEC-Agricultural Economics 

55200 

Advanced Plant Genetics 

AGRY-Agronomy 

53000 

Remote Sensing of Land Resources 

AGRY-Agronomy 

54500 

Soil Physics 

AGRY-Agronomy 

56000 

Genomics 

AGRY-Agronomy 

60000 

Quantitative Genetics 

AGRY-Agronomy 

61100 

Statistical Hydrology 

AGRY-Agronomy 

64100 

Population Genetics 

ANSC-Animal Sciences 

51100 

Introduction To the Application of Inferential Statistics 

ASEC-Agric Sciences Educ &Comm 

58200 

Introduction To Agricultural Informatics 

ASM-Agricultural Systems Mgmt 

53200 

Geographic Information System Application 

ASM-Agricultural Systems Mgmt 

54000 

Hands-On Introduction To AI 

ASM-Agricultural Systems Mgmt 

59100 

Bioinformatic Analysis of Genome Scale Data 

BCHM-Biochemistry 

61200 

High Performance Computing for Life Science 

BIOL- Biology  

59500 

Plant Disease Management 

BTNY 

53500 

Internet of Things for Information Technology 

CNIT-Computer and Information Technology 

54600 

Artificial Intelligence 

ECE 

57000 

Machine Learning  

FS-Food Science  

59000 

Remote Sensing Analysis and Applications 

FNR  

55800 

Advanced Spatial Ecology and GIS 

FNR 

58700 

Plant Responses to the Environment 

HORT 

55100 

Information Strategies for Science, Technology, and Engineering Research 

ILS 

59500 

Logistics 

MGMT 

56100 

Data Mining 

MGMT 

57100 

Zhihang Song working collecting data in greenhouse lab

Graduate Student Spotlight

Graduate students, like Zhihang Song, are working on the forefront of digital agriculture. Song is helping to develop simple sensing technology that evolved into LeafSpec, a pioneering handheld corn leaf hyperspectral image scanner that detects disease, herbicide and nutrient stress.

 Learn more about Song's research