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The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has been at the forefront of agricultural education and a key contributor to the land-based sector for 175 years. Today, the RAU has more than 1,200 students studying agriculture, business, environment, equine science, farm management, food, real estate and rural land management.

Join us on a virtual campus tour to get a taste of what studying at RAU is like:

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The perfect venue for your wedding in the Cotswolds.

We have lots of options for your special day, including a stunning chapel onsite and some historic private reception rooms that are licensed for civil ceremonies.

Should you wish to tie the knot at a private religious ceremony, our picturesque Victorian Chapel, located within the grounds, is fully licensed and available for hire. This can be arranged with the agreement of our resident Chaplain, who is always pleased to meet and discuss formalities with prospective brides and grooms.

Our Wayleave Officer Training Programmes, designed and delivered by experts in the field, are offered both online and face-to-face.

With a blended learning approach adopted, which includes discussion of real-life case studies, our range of programme courses enable Wayleave Officers to develop the skills and understanding needed to deliver best practice.

See below for helpful information on entry requirements for undergraduate courses.

We accept a wide range of qualifications and experience to join our degree courses.

UK Qualifications for entry to undergraduate programmes

General

The University will make both graded offers and use the UCAS tariff where required. This is so that the offers made to applicants are as clear as possible.

This presentation has been put together by the Student Recruitment and Outreach team in October 2020.

Watching the following video will give an introduction to the UCAS application process and how to write personal statements which may be of interest to school/college students, teachers and parents. For further information please contact outreach@rau.ac.uk.

The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) is a small and specialised land-based institution.

While we have comparatively high levels of diversity in our postgraduate community, recruitment to the undergraduate programmes has traditionally come from those who reside within English rural communities, which are not diverse.

Welcome to Fossehill, the equine enterprise, for the Royal Agricultural University. We are a BHS Approved livery yard, which is open from dawn till dusk, 365 days a year to meet yours and your equestrian needs for both horse and rider. 

I've been riding since I was two years old. I've been competing since I was about nine. I want to go into veterinary medicine, so it was a good step through.

I found out about the RAU one day in my old college library, and I looked up the website and just thought, this looks incredible, the alumni have gone on to do so many amazing things.

I'm so happy I came to the RAU, the friends I've made here will be friends for life, the contacts I've made will be so useful for the future.

We're often asked, you know, what does the land agent do? What does the rural land manager do? What does an estate manager do? You could go work on a large estate, you might be advising somebody who just owns an acre or two of land, you might want to go and work with one of the big national firms; Strutt and Parker, Bidwells, Savills. But your character might actually be better placed going into a more local firm.

The topic of business lets me focus on any business because it applies to the entire world and every person that has a job and I can focus on gigantic corporations or I can look at something closer to home like the local shops in town because business and money always goes from the top down and affects every person on the scale.