Academics: Programs of Study: Undergraduate Degree Programs
Horticulture
- Department: Horticulture
- Degree: Bachelor of Science in Agriculture - BSA
- UGA Bulletin: Major Requirements
- UGA Bulletin: Minor Requirements
- Campus: Athens
- UGA Career Center: Career Choices
Requirements
The Horticulture Department offers majors leading to the B.S.A. degree for students interested in all aspects of horticulture including landscape and grounds management. Students may select from three majors within the department. The horticulture major provides the education necessary for a career in production, sales, etc. of horticultural commodities (fruits, vegetables, indoor and outdoor ornamental plants, turfgrasses, and flowers). The landscape and grounds management major prepares students for careers in landscape and lawn installation and maintenance. The turfgrass management major prepares students for careers in golf course and athletic field management.
The horticulture curriculum is designed to instruct and educate students in the application of basic principles to the propagation, culture, production, and postharvest physiology of ornamental plants, turfgrasses, fruits, vegetables, and flowers. The curriculum has the flexibility to allow a student to select courses in turf management (the culture and management of turfgrasses on golf courses, recreational areas, and home lawns); floriculture/woody ornamentals (including the use of plants indoors for aesthetic, therapeutic, as well as pollution abatement purposes); and fruit and vegetable production and management.
Career Opportunities
A student who carefully selects his/her courses and successfully completes the curriculum can achieve the education and academic requirements necessary to enter any one or more of the following fields: management, production, marketing, or postharvest handling of vegetables, fruits, flowers, ornamental plants, or turfgrasses; salesperson and/or technical advisor with a commercial firm; field advisor or manager of greenhouses, parks, arboretums, botanical gardens, garden centers, and golf courses; teacher in high schools or technical schools; horticultural journalist; agricultural extension agent or governmental employee. A student may select a curriculum for entrance into graduate school which prepares for a career in horticultural research and/or teaching at the college or university level.