Undergraduate Education
Purdue University, in collaboration with the College of Agriculture, offers a wide range of opportunities for undergraduate students to build knowledge and practical skills in data science and digital agriculture. Through coursework, experiential learning, and applied research, students gain the tools needed to address real-world challenges and prepare for careers shaping the future of agriculture.
Undergraduate Majors and Careers
Majors Offered
As an undergraduate in the College of Agriculture, you’ll find numerous opportunities in Digital Agriculture to build your knowledge and skills in data science. Each of our 11 academic departments offers data-focused courses designed to strengthen your abilities in data management, statistics, programming, GIS, data visualization, and storytelling.
Employers increasingly seek graduates who combine agricultural knowledge with strong data science and digital technology skills — a combination that positions you for success in the evolving field of Digital Agriculture.
Agricultural Systems Management
Power the future of agricultural innovation. Combine agricultural science, business and technology to solve challenges in food, fuel and fiber, and lead high-tech, sustainable operations that keep the world running.
Agricultural Economics
Discover how agriculture and economics connect — apply data and economic principles to solve global challenges in policy, trade and sustainability. With multiple concentrations available, choose your path to shape the future of the agricultural industry.
Digital Agronomy, BS
Shape the future of farming with data-driven innovation. Combine agronomic science and advanced technology to collect data from unmanned aerial vehicles, satellites and sensors — and turn it into smart, sustainable solutions for crops and soil.
Unmanned Aerial Systems, BS
Explore the future of flight with Purdue’s unmanned aerial systems major. Master drone operations, design and policy — gaining hands-on experience in a field transforming industries from agriculture to emergency response and creating thousands of new jobs.
Artificial Intelligence, BS
Shape the future with intelligent systems. In Purdue’s artificial intelligence major, explore how machines learn, reason and make decisions — building a deep foundation in data, ethics, neuroscience, and computing to create AI that truly works for the real world.
Data Science, BS
Turn big data into bold discoveries. In Purdue’s data science major, you’ll learn to analyze, model and extract insight from complex data — building a foundation in statistics, computing and analytics that can be applied to healthcare, business, security, and beyond.
The new College of Agriculture Internship & Job Board is live! The fall semester is the time when recruiters are filling spring and summer internships.
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Data-Driven Agriculture Minor
Pursuing the Data-Driven Agriculture Minor gives you the tools to analyze and apply data for real-world agricultural innovation. Through this 21-credit program, you’ll build technical skills in statistics, programming, GIS, data visualization, and digital technologies—while learning how to translate information into smarter, more sustainable decisions across the agricultural landscape.
Digital Natural Resources Minor
The Digital Natural Resources Minor will train students in a wide-array of cutting-edge methods that leverage emerging technologies to sustainability manage our natural resources. This minor emphasizes new approaches to data acquisition (UAS-, aerial- and satellite-based platforms), analysis and novel applications in natural resources.
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The Applications in Data Science Certificate equips students with practical skills to collect, analyze, and interpret data across a variety of agricultural and life sciences contexts. Through this 16-credit program, you’ll gain hands-on experience in data management, programming, statistics, GIS, and data visualization, preparing you to tackle complex problems using modern digital tools.
Applications Data Science Certification
One particular program specifically targets digital agriculture and that is the Agricultural Systems Management: Data and Information Systems concentration of the Agricultural Systems Management major.
B.S. and Minor in Unmanned Aerial System
The Purdue Polytechnic offers a B.S. in Unmanned Aerial Systems as well as a Minor in Unmanned Aerial Systems.
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The Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning minor gives students a grounding in the fundamental concepts underlying modern AI and Machine Learning approaches and systems. It covers both the mathematical background as well as programming, and allows students to branch out and draw on courses across the spectrum of AI and ML topics.
Data-Driven Agriculture Minor
Pursuing the Data-Driven Agriculture Minor gives you the tools to analyze and apply data for real-world agricultural innovation. Through this 21-credit program, you’ll build technical skills in statistics, programming, GIS, data visualization, and digital technologies—while learning how to translate information into smarter, more sustainable decisions across the agricultural landscape.
Digital Natural Resources Minor
The Digital Natural Resources Minor will train students in a wide-array of cutting-edge methods that leverage emerging technologies to sustainability manage our natural resources. This minor emphasizes new approaches to data acquisition (UAS-, aerial- and satellite-based platforms), analysis and novel applications in natural resources.
Monitors with forest images
The Applications in Data Science Certificate equips students with practical skills to collect, analyze, and interpret data across a variety of agricultural and life sciences contexts. Through this 16-credit program, you’ll gain hands-on experience in data management, programming, statistics, GIS, and data visualization, preparing you to tackle complex problems using modern digital tools.
Applications Data Science Certification
One particular program specifically targets digital agriculture and that is the Agricultural Systems Management: Data and Information Systems concentration of the Agricultural Systems Management major.
B.S. and Minor in Unmanned Aerial System
The Purdue Polytechnic offers a B.S. in Unmanned Aerial Systems as well as a Minor in Unmanned Aerial Systems.
Purdue student holding phone displaying digital crop info
The Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning minor gives students a grounding in the fundamental concepts underlying modern AI and Machine Learning approaches and systems. It covers both the mathematical background as well as programming, and allows students to branch out and draw on courses across the spectrum of AI and ML topics.
Learning Communities
Undergraduate students interested in Digital Agriculture can enhance their learning through Learning Communities that provide hands-on experience, peer support, and immersive opportunities in cutting-edge agricultural technologies.
Current Learning Communities include:
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Data Mine – Focuses on applying data science and analytics to real-world agricultural problems.
spring and summer internships
The new College of Agriculture Internship & Job Board is live! The fall semester is the time when recruiters are filling spring and summer internships.
Career OpportunitiesInterested in adding data science and digital agriculture to your degree plan? Reach out to explore options and next steps.
digitalag@purdue.eduInterested in adding data science and digital agriculture to your degree plan? Reach out to explore options and next steps.
digitalag@purdue.edu