This program will train you in the business skills to be an innovator. Learn to launch new technologies, products, and even new business ventures in the agriculture, food, and beverage industries. Go from ideation to marketplace.
Food Manufacturing Safety and Sanitation – Online
This course trains individuals in the food manufacturing industry to follow sound food safety practices and sanitation methods. Certify your organization and employees are up to date with Current Good Manufacturing Practices.
Environmental Horticulture Major
Provide solutions necessary to achieve aesthetically pleasing, functional, and environmentally sound outdoor spaces. Offering concentrations in Landscape Design and Contracting, Nursery and Landscape Management, and Turf Management.
Horticulture Major On-Campus and Online
Apply scientific principles in the growing, marketing, processing, and utilizing of fruits, vegetables, flower and foliage plants, trees, shrubs, and turf grasses. This degree program offers both in-person and online options
Animal Science
Develop an industry-oriented, science-based education that focuses on food-producing animals while learning technical, practical, and business skills involved in livestock production.
M.S. in Animal Science
Develop an industry-oriented, science-based education that prepares you for careers in animal agriculture or one of many industries associated with livestock production.
Organic Agriculture Interdisciplinary – Minor
Learn the science of organic agriculture with additional courses specifically focused on organic agriculture production techniques, business management, marketing, and decision making.
M.S. in Horticulture
Conduct a research investigation on a horticultural topic that generates statistically analyzable data reported in a comprehensive scientific thesis.
Ph.D. in Horticulture
Develops a horticulture graduate student into a professional horticulturist on the highest plane.
Horticultural Food Crops – Concentration
Focus your studies on systems related to production of fruits and vegetables.
Horticultural Science – Concentration
Receive a solid foundation in the basic sciences and agricultural sciences leading to technical and scientific careers in laboratory, greenhouse, or field research.
Seed Science and Technology
Prepare for positions in the seed industry with a comprehensive overview of seed analysis and a scientific understanding of seed biology.
Landscape Architecture Major
Give character to the constructed landscape, bringing the same skills to the shaping of landforms, plants, structures, and materials, and service to the client, as an architect brings to a building.
M.S. in Soil and Crop Science, Plant Breeding and Genetics
Become a member of a comprehensive crop molecular genetics program involving molecular mapping and characterization of agronomically important traits in a variety of crops.
M.S. in Soil and Crop Science – Agroecosystems Management
Learn the skills of precision crop, nutrient, and management systems that improve the efficiency of crop water use and pest management.
Environmental Horticulture – Minor
Provide solutions necessary to achieve aesthetically pleasing, functional, and environmentally sound outdoor spaces.
Horticulture – Minor
Learn the application of scientific principles in the growing, marketing, processing, and utilizing of fruits, vegetables, flower and foliage plants, trees, shrubs, and turf grasses.
M.S. in Bioagricultural Sciences – Plan A, Plant Pathology Specialization
Conduct research in the study of microbes that affect plant health, such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi. Help build a healthier food system for a growing world while protecting the environment.
M.S. in Bioagricultural Sciences – Plan A, Weed Science Specialization
Conduct research in the study of weed management and pesticide function and resistance. Help build a healthier food system for a growing world while protecting the environment.
M.S. in Bioagricultural Sciences – Plan B, Pest Management Specialization
Gain hands-on experience in managing sustaining our food and fiber supply, providing bioagricultural security, and protecting our ecosystems from pests, plant diseases, and weeds.
Ph.D. in Bioagricultural Sciences
Conduct research in plant abiotic stress or the microbes, insects, and weeds that threaten the safety and sustainability of our food supply. Learn how ecosystems function and how to protect them.
Ph.D. in Bioagricultural Sciences – Entomology Specialization
Conduct research in the study of insects and other arthropods such as ticks and mites. Help build a healthier food system for a growing world while protecting the environment.
Ph.D. in Bioagricultural Sciences – Plant Pathology Specialization
Conduct research in the study of microbes that affect plant health, such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi. Help build a healthier food system for a growing world while protecting the environment.
Ph.D. in Bioagricultural Sciences – Weed Science Specialization
Conduct research in the study of weed management and pesticide function and resistance. Help build a healthier food system for a growing world while protecting the environment.
Agricultural Business Major
Apply theoretical and analytic tools of applied economics within the context of food systems. Explores the broadest context of food systems ranging from small-scale localized markets to traditional market-mediated commodity-based products to highly specialized, vertically coordinated supply chains.
Soil and Crop Sciences
Gain hands-on training and expert instruction that will equip you to solve current global sustainability challenges in soil, plant, and environmental sciences.
Entomology Minor
Explore the science of insects and other arthropods, such as ticks and mites. Learn about the many critical roles that arthropods play in ecosystems and how you can help maintain ecosystem health by helping arthropods.
Organic Agriculture Interdisciplinary – Minor
Study holistic methods for food production that promote and enhance agro-ecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity.
Plant Health – Minor
Apply the knowledge gained in biology courses to real world problems. Learn how microbes, insects, and weeds impact food production, urban landscapes, forests, rangelands, and other ecosystems.
Sustainable Agricultural Management – Concentration
Help the agricultural economy prosper by combining practical business expertise with cutting-edge knowledge of data-driven sustainable agriculture.
Agricultural Biology Major – Entomology Concentration
Explore the science of insects and other arthropods, such as ticks and mites. Learn about the many critical roles that arthropods play in ecosystems and how you can help maintain ecosystem health by helping arthropods.
Plant Biotechnology – Concentration
Apply advanced genomics to develop varieties of crops that are more nutritious, resilient to climate change, and disease-resistant to enable sustainable agriculture.
Agricultural Biology Major – Plant Pathology Concentration
Discover how virus, bacteria, fungi, and other microbes affect plant and ecosystem health and learn about the tools that are used to diagnose and manage plant diseases caused by these microbes.
Agricultural Biology Major – Weed Science Concentration
Invasive and weed plants are one of the major threats to food security. Learn to identify and manage weeds and discover the role that biotechnology plays in weed management.
Agricultural Biology Sequential M.S. Degree Program
Gain hands-on experience in protecting natural and agricultural ecosystems from arthropod pests, plant diseases, and weeds. This M.S. degree is also available online.
This M.S. degree is also available online.
M.S. in Bioagricultural Sciences
Conduct research focused on plant stresses, microbes, insects, and weeds that threaten the safety and sustainability of our food supply.
M.S. in Bioagricultural Sciences – Plan A, Entomology Specialization
Conduct research in the study of insects and other arthropods such as ticks and mites. Help build a healthier food system for a growing world while protecting the environment.