BS Horticulture at Texas A&M University

Programme overview

This program offers hands-on training in horticulture and landscape management, preparing students for diverse careers and advanced studies in life sciences. This degree is structured to provide students with hands-on training, knowledge and skills needed for producing, improving, managing, and marketing fruit, nut, vegetable, landscape, floral, and other ornamental crops or designing, building, and maintaining residential or small-scale commercial landscapes.

Faculty: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | Department: Horticultural Sciences | Duration: 120 semester credit hours | Study mode: full-time | Location: College Station, TX, United States

What you will study

2 The Graduation requirements include a requirement for 3 hours of International and Cultural Diversity courses and 3 hours of Cultural Discourse courses. A course satisfying a Core category, a college/department requirement, or a free or directed elective can be used to satisfy this requirement. See academic advisor. Course list includes HORT 281 Professions in Horticulture; HORT 201 Horticultural Science and Practices 1; HORT 202 Horticultural Science and Practices Laboratory; CHEM 119 Fundamentals of Chemistry I; ECCB 205 Fundamentals of Ecology; ENTO 201 General Entomology. The plan of study totals 120 semester credit hours.

Career pathways

This degree also prepares students for undertaking graduate studies so that they can pursue science, technology, research and development-focused careers in life sciences. Career prospects range from managing the production of horticultural crops in fields and in controlled environments, managing landscape businesses for growing communities, designing sustainable residential landscapes of the future, working with cli

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Application information

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

First-year students can enter in Fall or Spring; transfer students can enter in Spring, Summer or Fall (Summer and Fall cannot both be applied for in the same year).

First-year, College Station: Fall applications open August 1 and close December 1 (additional required and optional documents due December 15); Spring applications close October 15. McAllen: Fall deadline March 1, Spring deadline October 15. Galveston: Fall deadline May 1, Spring deadline December 1. The non-refundable application fee is $75. Applications are made through Common App or ApplyTexas. Texas A&M is test optional: ACT or SAT scores are not required for first-year applicants.

Transfer applicants: Spring applications open August 1 and close October 15 (College Station, McAllen, Fort Worth) or December 1 (Galveston). Summer and Fall applications open January 1; the Fall deadline is March 1 (College Station, Fort Worth, McAllen) or July 1 (Galveston); the Summer deadline for Galveston is May 1.

Apply through the official page: https://admissions.tamu.edu/

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