Overview

The Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) can be defined as an automated, continuous and real time monitoring of animals, controlling production, reproduction, health and welfare of livestock and their environmental impact.

Key Features

The managers in PLF will also have skills on elements of chemical plants and the theory of the development of chemical processes useful to dictate the guidelines to livestock companies for the management and disposal of waste, minimizing the negative impacts of production on the environment and increasing the sustainability of supply chains.

Hence, biodiversity and ecosystem services will be protected, in order to create an integration between livestock and environment, in support of territorial productions of excellence. From an engineering point of view, the control of the automation of company information, which derive from robotics and sensor technology applied to animals, will be also considered in order to increase farm efficiency and sustainability.

Finally, the process of uncovering trends, patterns and correlations in large amounts of raw data to help make data-informed decisions will be studied through statistical tools, that foresee data organization and analytics.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Autonomous sensors

Bioconversion processes

Biomass thermal conversion processes

Digital Mapping, Geospatial Statistics and Decision Support

Feed management

Housing planning and design

Infective diseases

Innovation management in livestock farm

Large Animal

Non infective diseases

Poultry and fish

Precision crop protection

Precision Irrigation Systems and Sensing Technologies

Production process control

Robotics

Waste management and impact

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-23 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

Credits

120 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Naples, Italy

Disciplines

Veterinary Medicine Agriculture Animal Science View 5 other Masters in Animal Science in Italy

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

For the admission to the Master Degree in Precision Livestock Farming, the students are required to have knowledge in both basic fields, such as mathematics; general, organic and inorganic chemistry; and biochemistry, and in the following characterizing disciplines:

VET/01 Anatomy of domestic animals

VET/02: Animal physiology;

AGR/02: Agronomy and herbaceous crops;

AGR/18: Animal nutrition and feeding;

AGR/17: Animal breeding and genetic improvement;

AGR/19: Livestock systems and animal husbandry;

AGR/20: Animal husbandry in poultry and fish,

AGR/01: Rural economy

The graduate program can enroll students holding a certificate of proficiency in English internationally recognized. The minimum score is recognized equal to B2. If the English language is not officially recognized, a placement test supported by linguistic structures of university will be performed.

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Tuition Fees

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EU/EEA Nationals

200 EUR / year

≈ 200 EUR / year

Additional Details

EU students: €140/year regional tax (compulsory)
Non EU students: €140/year regional tax (compulsory

Living costs

Napoli

Italy

680 - 1000 EUR / month

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