IPAG Aims

The IPAG program qualifies the student to undertake independent scientific work at universities and other scientific and research institutes in the various fields of agricultural science.

In the course of the IPAG studies the students have demonstrated a systematically understanding of their research field and the governing of the skills and methods, which are implicated in the research areas of agricultural sciences.

They possess a comprehensive knowledge of the scientific literature in their research field and have executed through their scientific task an autonomous contribution to the research field, which has enlarged the knowledge and compares favourably an international review by the scientific community. By this the students have provided evidence that they are able to identify scientific questions, to carry out a critical analysis, to develop and synthesize new and complex ideas and to design and conduct by themselves essential research projects with a scientific integrity.

The holders of a PhD of the IPAG in Göttingen possess the capability to drive further development in the society, in the cultural sector and in the scientific world, in an academic and non-academic occupation. They will be able to present scientific expertise in their field of interest to an academic as well as a non-academic audience and discuss it with their scientific colleagues.