The Master's Program in Agroindustrial Science and Food Safety prepares professionals who can formulate and carry out plans, projects, and procedures related to agro-industrial chains while exhibiting an entrepreneurial spirit and a global perspective. Graduates will act with a strong sense of humanism, ethics, and social responsibility. They are authorities in the areas of quality and food safety in agro-production chains, coordinating their operations with the sector's demands and most recent trends.
Graduates apply agro-industrial, quality, and food safety concepts and methodologies to real industrial cases. They design, transform, and innovate processes for managing food safety and sustainability of the food industry, by working collaboratively and incorporating experiences and perspectives of different stakeholders. They develop innovative entrepreneurial projects based on market research and analysis of consumer trends, considering the economic, environmental, and social impact of their proposal.
Furthermore, they will select and manages technical standards, protocols, and current research tools to propose improvements in quality and food safety processes.
Graduates are expected to be leaders and responsible citizens of society based on ethical and civil values, cultural identity and respect for diverse perspectives.
Program enrollment: Program headcount totals the number of students enrolled yearly.
Graduation rate: is calculated through the 2020-2021 academic year, based on new, first-time students entering in the fall semester, regardless of whether they enroll in the daytime or evening version of their program (if available). These rates do not consider incoming transfer students.
In every semester, the program provides assessment results according to its Multiannual Assessment Plan (MAP), which typically considers one or more of its program learning outcomes (PLOs). Most programs utilize the platform Brightspace to collect and assess student work and to present the data and evidence of student achievement. These results and their analysis, with the objective of identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s annual assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent period in which a PLO has been assessed is indicated, with the percentage indicating achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, according to the rubric used to evaluate the student work. This standard can be designated at an introductory, intermediate, or final level, depending upon how the course learning outcomes (CLOs) align to each PLO in the program’s curriculum map.