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School:
School of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Program Type:
Degree
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Program Level:
Bachelor's Degree: BS
While food crops are important to keep people fed and healthy, the non-food plants that inhabit our surroundings are important to provide ground cover, provide shade and windbreaks, provide oxygenation and cleaner air, and create a pleasing, healthy environment for our work, play, and daily lives. As a student in the environmental horticulture degree program, you will choose from one of three tracks that will get you ready for a rewarding career in creating beautiful landscapes, managing sports facility turf, operating a nursery or greenhouse, or any of hundreds of other careers in horticulture.
Whether your interests bring you to exploring golf course design and management or to using your creative talents to create gorgeously sculpted landscapes for homes and businesses, you will find a home within the environmental horticulture program.
Concentrations
What You Will Study:
You will receive the same phenomenal general education core that all ABAC students study in their first two years as a Stallion. In these classes, you will learn and work alongside students from every single major on campus, gaining insight from and sharing experiences with a diverse cross-section of the student body.
Following your core classes, you will move into your major area studies and choose from a broad selection of courses, including:
- Soil science and fertilization
- Turfgrass science and technology
- Pest and weed management
- Floral management
- Greenhouse and nursery management
- Interior and exterior plantscapes
- Golf course design and management
- Drainage, irrigation, and erosion control
- Turfgrass and ornamental plant diseases
- Grounds and equipment management
With internship opportunities both here at home and at sites around the country, you will also gain valuable field experience in addition to your classroom studies. Through these special learning opportunities, you will hone your skills, develop valuable insights into the nature of your industry, and start to build a network of connections and colleagues who will provide you with helpful guidance and advice as you start your new career.
Career Paths:
With your bachelor’s degree, you will be started on a path to a number of rewarding careers, including:
- Golf Course Superintendent
- Athletic Field Manager
- Landscape Manager
- Assistant Golf Course Superintendent
- Sod Farm Manager
- Pesticides Sales Rep
- Fertilizer Sales Rep
- Equipment Sales Rep
- Irrigation Sales Rep
- Turf Seed and Sod Sales Rep
- Greenhouse and Nursery Manager
- Sports Turf Manager
Ready to Get Started? Apply to ABAC Today!
Questions about a bachelor's degree in Environmental Horticulture?
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