Specialise in Horticultural Science for your Master of Science at Massey
With Massey’s Master of Science (Horticultural Science), you can create your own innovative research project. Massey University’s horticultural science qualification is the most research-focused in New Zealand.
Take advantage of our globally-renowned expertise
Let our experts help you develop your own expertise. You will learn from, and research with, highly skilled, internationally recognised and active researchers in horticulture. Our current specific areas of horticulture research expertise include:
fruit and vegetable innovation
high value plant products and services
applied plant and horticultural science
seed science and technology.
Use world-leading equipment and facilities
As a horticulture student, you will have access to our world-leading equipment and facilities such as our controlled environment plant growth facilities, the unique and extensive university orchards and state-of-the-art plant physiology and biology equipment.
Be surrounded by the best
Massey University is a partner in the Joint Graduate School for Horticulture and Food Enterprise (with Plant & Food Research). Massey University is also home to ‘foodHQ’, New Zealand’s international centre for collaborative food research. FoodHQ is a collaboration between organisations including Massey University, AgResearch, AsureQuality, the Cawthorn Institute, SR, Fonterra, Plant & Food Research and the Riddet Institute. There is a breadth of horticultural research activities at Massey, including:
the work to understand the effects of light in improving crop production and quality
research on fruit crops such as kiwifruit and apples
Maori vegetable crop science
plant disease.
A Master of Science in Horticultural Science is a good fit if you:
have an undergraduate degree in a horticultural-related area
would like to help develop innovative approaches to quality, nutrition, flavour, market access and sustainability in horticultural products
are interested in a research-based postgraduate qualification.
1 May 2024
More details
Start date
15 July 2024
Manawatu Campus
Massey University,
Tennent Drive,
Palmerston North,
Turitea,
4474, New Zealand
All students must meet university entrance requirements to be admitted to the University.
Specific requirements
To enter the Master of Science (Horticultural Science) you will have been awarded or qualified for:
the Bachelor of Science degree with a major in the intended postgraduate subject, or equivalent, with a minimum B average in the majoring 300-level courses, or
the Bachelor of Science with Honours, in the intended MSc subject, having achieved a B grade average over the contributing courses and a B grade in an approved research methods course, or
the Postgraduate Diploma in Science and Technology in the intended MSc subject, having achieved a B grade average over the contributing courses and a B grade in an approved research methods course, or
the Postgraduate Certificate in Science and Technology in the intended MSc subject, having achieved a B grade average over the contributing courses and a B grade in an approved research methods course.
International English Language Requirements:
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.