• meet the need for adaptive, adaptable graduates with the ability to manage change in agribusinesses
• empower students from a variety of educational backgrounds to fulfill their academic potential
• develop students' personal and interpersonal transferable skills in agribusiness
• provide students with opportunities for continuing intellectual development
• provide an academic basis for further study of business and management at graduate level and/or graduate training.

Prospects after graduation include agricultural/ food processing and operations analysis, farm management, agro-forestry, research, agricultural loans office, agribusiness corporate sales representation, extension, project management, entrepreneurship, provision of services amongst others.