B.S. Horticulture and Urban Agriculture

Sustainable Practices, Green Thumbs

Horticulture professionals make careers out of growing and caring for plants, but you need more than a green thumb. Study topics like plant tissue culture and grafting; soil science; production of flowers, fruits, shrubs trees and vegetables; pollination and much more while gaining practical experiences at on-campus plant science farms and computer-controlled greenhouses in this program. 

Fast Facts

• Complete your own independent study
• Grow flowering crops and tropical plants to gain crop production and management experience 
• Use specialized cloning techniques to produce flowering, fruiting and vegetable plants
• Visit nurseries, golf courses and top-of-the-line landscape installations
• Grow and donate produce from the U of I organic farm to a local food bank