MSc in Agricultural Water Management Engineering

MSc in Agricultural Water Management Engineering

Last modified: 13. March 2025

The aim of the program is to train agricultural water management engineers who, with the knowledge acquired in the Master's program, are able to apply the tools of sustainable integrated water management in the field of agricultural water management in a creative engineering way. With their qualifications, they are able to cooperate at a high level in solving national and international tasks related to their field. They are suitable for positions as design and development engineers, researchers and managers. They are prepared to continue their studies at doctoral level.


Qualification of the degree

  • level of program: Master of Science (MSc);
  • qualification of degree: Agricultural Water Management Engineer.

Length of program: 4 semesters
Work schedule: full-time (HU, EN)
Financial options: state scholarship or self-funded
Program Leader: Dr. István Waltner associate professor (Szent István Campus)
Cooperative program coordinators: 

  • Dr. Zoltán Futó associate professor
  • Dr. János Grósz senior lecturer

Training sites:

  • Gödöllő 
  • Szarvas

Language of conduction:
-    Gödöllő: Hungarian, English 
-    Szarvas : Hungarian

Elective specializations: the degree does not include specializations.

Professional practice

The professional practice is a professional practice of at least four weeks and 160 hours, as defined in the model curriculum, carrying out activities related to agricultural water management.

Skills and professional competences acquired on completion of the program

Graduate engineers with a degree in agricultural water management are able to:

  • develop and implement climate adaptation solutions in their area of expertise;
  • to apply and improve the latest agricultural water management technologies and practices;
  • coordinating the professional task of agricultural water management;
  • understand and form an opinion on domestic and international economic policy and social events related to the agricultural economy;
  • independently interpret and apply legislation relevant to their professional activities;
  • analyzes the work (activities) and practical problems of the managed organization with scientific attitude and appropriate methods;
  • to define, plan and organize the system of activities of the field of water management;
  • develop and defend their own views in debates on general social, agricultural, economic and specific issues in their specialization;
  • follow, in an informed and analytical way, the authoritative national and international literature in their field;
  • to ensure the conditions necessary for the implementation of the activities defined, to manage and monitor their implementation and to organize it;
  • creating the conditions for change and implementing change to streamline the work of the organization;
  • practical implementation of the various functions of leadership, motivating managers, evaluating their performance, and managing conflicts in a legal and effective way;
  • project team building, active participants in research and development projects;
  • to analyze in detail the different areas of ideas that make up the knowledge base of a given discipline, exploring the broad and specific contexts;
  • to identify professional problems, to take a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary approach to them, and to explore and formulate the detailed theoretical and practical background needed to solve them;
  • formulate and evaluate their analysis of the agricultural economy in a cross-sectoral, contextual and complex way;
  • express themselves in Hungarian and in foreign languages, orally and in writing, and take part in debates.

Conditions of obtaining pre-degree certificate (absolutorium)

  • completion of: all the compulsory subjects of the program, completion of the professional practice, the required number of optional credits according to the curriculum and the number of credits for the preparation of the thesis, for a total of 120 credits.

Final exam

Condition to attend final exam:

  • obtained pre-degree certificate (absolutorium);
  • submission of thesis and its acceptance by reviewers;
  •  the student shall not be in debt to the University.

Parts of final exam:

  • comprehensive complex exam;
  • thesis defense.

Field of knowledge and subjects of final exam 
From 2021/22 academic year:

  • Colloidal systems, surface phenomena in industrial technologies. Irrigated arable and horticultural production: types of irrigation, timing, crop-irrigation relationship.
  • Management, maintenance and utilization of wetlands and floodplains: the impact of floods on nonliving environmental factors, the dynamics of natural vegetation in wetlands and its impact on water. Floodplain management options.
  • Drought management: drought monitoring, integrated drought management, national drought strategy.
  • Monitoring in agricultural water management: modern monitoring technologies, challenges in agricultural monitoring.
  • Water supply systems for agriculture
  • Integrated water resources management

Evaluation of final exam and qualification of degree from 2020/21 academic year

Accordingly, to chapter 4.3.16 Final exam and chapter 4.3.17. Degree certificate.

Model curriculum of the program