林肯大学国际农村发展研究生文凭课程是农业综合商业学院和环境，社会与设计学院的联合课程。该计划为学生提供先进的知识和技能，以使其参与发展政策和实践的经济，政治和社会方面，并在更广泛的发展环境中应用这些知识和技能，例如农业综合企业，经济学，环境管理，金融和/或旅游。该方案的毕业生将对国际农村发展及其对可持续的社会和经济增长的重要性有更深入的了解，这些问题制约着可持续农村生计，政策，体制，程序和做法，从而促进了穷人的经济增长和自然资源的可持续利用资源，以及在国际农村发展背景下应用上述技术的关键技能和能力。
Lincoln University's Postgraduate Diploma in International Rural Development is a joint programme between the Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce and the Facultyof Environment, Society and Design. The programme provides students with advanced knowledge and skills to engage with the economic, political and social dimensions of development policy and practice, and to apply these within broader development context(s) such as agribusiness, economics, environmental management, finance, and/or tourism. Graduates of the programme will have gained an advanced understanding of international rural development and its importance to sustainable social and economic growth, the problems constraining sustainable rural livelihoods, policy, institutions, processes and practices that promote pro-poor economic growth and sustainable use of natural resources, and the critical skills and abilities to apply the above in an international rural development context.