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Master's Development and Rural Innovation at Wageningen University is a 120-credit, 2-year, in-person msc program based in Wageningen, NL. Tuition is €44,400.
The program integrates social, environmental, and technological aspects of innovation and transformation processes in agriculture, natural resource management, and food systems. Students choose from thesis tracks in communication and innovation studies, technology and development studies, sociology of development, or rural sociology, involving coursework, internship, field excursion, and thesis research.
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