WUR – NMBU route
First year university: Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Second year university: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway
First year in Wageningen
- Welcome Course and orientation week (2 weeks in August, no credits)
- Animal breeding and genetics (6 ECTS)
- Practical computing for biologists (6 ECTS)
- Genetic improvement of livestock (6 ECTS)
- Genomics (6 ECTS)
- Breeding lab (6 ECTS)
- Master thesis (30 ECTS)
Second year in Aas
- Transversal project on Sustainable development goals, including additional content (5 ECTS)
- BIN300 Statistical Genomics (10 ECTS)
- Elective courses (15 ECTS)
- Second Master thesis (30 ECTS)
UGOE – NMBU route
First year university: University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Second year university: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway
First year in Göttingen
Compulsory courses (33 ECTS)
1. Welcome Course and orientation week (2 weeks in August, no credits)
2. Quantitative genetics and population genetics (6 ECTS)
3. Biotechnology and molecular genetics in plant and animal breeding (6 ECTS)
4. Selection theory, design and optimization of breeding programs (6 ECTS)
5. Breeding schemes and programs in animal breeding (3 ECTS)
6. Internship Animal Breeding (6 ECTS)
7. Breeding Lab (6 ECTS)
Compulsory elective courses (should choose at least two with minimum of 9 ECTS, and fill up to 60 ECTS with elective courses)
1. Statistical genetics, breeding informatics and experimental design (6 ECTS)
2. Breeding informatics (6 ECTS)
3. Molecular and biotechnological methods in plant and animal breeding (6 ECTS)
4. Data Analysis with R (3 ECTS)
5. Programming with R (3 ECTS)
Second year in Aas
- Transversal project on Sustainable development goals, including additional content (5 ECTS)
- Statistical Genomics (10 ECTS)
- Elective courses (15 ECTS)
- Master thesis (30 ECTS)