This innovative, multidisciplinary program in Desert Studies is structured to provide an integrated approach, offering students exceptional opportunities to pursue a combination of basic and applied research. Students are exposed to a wide range of disciplines complementary to their track of study.
The program offers the following tracks of study:
✔ Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands
✔ Irrigation and Plant Environment
✔ Solar Energy and the Environmental Physics (for students who began up until October 2019)
✔ Environmental and Aquatic Microbiology (for students who began up until March 2022)
✔ Agroinformatics
✔ Environmental Microbiology (for students who began from October 2022)
Students are required to complete 42 credits including 12 Research Project credits.
The courses in the program are taught in English.