You can start studying in either:

• Semester 1 (late February)
• Semester 2 (mid-July)

• A relevant New Zealand level 7 bachelor’s degree or recognised equivalent with a B average or better in the 300 level and final year (full-time equivalent) courses

• If English isn’t your first language, other entry requirements will apply. Learn more about the English language requirements.

Summary of Regulations

All of the following:

• Students are required to complete 240 credits
• In the first semester, 60 credits of taught courses from the schedules to the regulations for the MNaRM&EE degree at Lincoln University.
• In the second semester, students are required to complete a minimum of 60 credits (30 ECTS) of coursework at BOKU. Note that the first year provides preliminary research preparation.
• In the second year students must enrol in the thesis at Lincoln University worth 120 credits.

What's it going to cost?

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Graduate Attributes refer to the knowledge, skills, and values that you gain from completing your qualification. These high-level qualities will prepare you for career success, further study or research and making a valuable contribution to society in your chosen field.

Knowledge

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of natural resource management and/or ecological engineering issues and the theoretical concepts that underpin them.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the complex nature, characteristics and behaviour of stakeholders in natural resource management and/or ecological engineering policy and projects.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the system of New Zealand, Austrian and international or multilateral agreements, treaties, conventions and protocols which drive key natural resource management and ecological engineering issues, and the institutions and organisations which implement and support them.
• Demonstrate understanding of theoretical concepts and applied approaches to Māori and indigenous natural resource management and ecological engineering.

Skills

• Select and apply appropriate research skills and techniques to specific natural resource management and ecological engineering issues.
• Use effective organisation and time management skills.
• Approach problems from a multidisciplinary and, when applicable, multinational (Austria and New Zealand) perspective.
• Critically analyse, synthesise and solve problems in natural resource management and ecological engineering.
• Use advanced oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present theoretical concepts.
• Evaluate and use appropriate methodological tools for resource management and ecological engineering research.

• Engage in effective working relationships with a range of people and communities.

Values

• Demonstrate that they appreciate the benefits of experiential learning in two countries (New Zealand and Austria).
• Recognise the importance of being open and sensitive to people from a wide range of backgrounds and communities.
• Recognise and respond to gender, equity and ethnicity issues in natural resource management and ecological engineering.