Finally, students obtain the MSc degree of horticultural engineering. After completing their graduate studies selected students may start doctoral courses of research leading to the PhD degree. The Faculty of Horticulture initiated a programme of higher education in horticulture for Hungarians abroad in 1993, first in the Transylvanian region of Romania and then in the Voivodina region of Yugoslavia. The number of students is 260. The aim of this programme is to train horticulturists who will be able to start individual farming enterprises in their own localities in the field of horticultural production, processing, trade and management.
Education abroad is a special form of distance learning.