Career Opportunities
Associate
Ornamental Horticulture:
- Nurseries
- Garden centers
- Greenhouses
- Floral shops
- Groundskeeping and maintenance for golf courses, school districts and municipalities
Undergraduate
Environmental Soil/Water Science:
- Soil conservationists
- Soil scientists for federal agencies
- Environmental consultants
- Soil regulatory specialists
- Soil, plant, water and atmosphere relations (determining irrigation needs, working with biometerologists)
- Construction site analysis (soil analysis, sediment mapping, classification, interpretation, sampling, etc.)
- Analyzing and determining soil quality (working with farmers, conservation, erosion prevention and restoration, soil fertility, etc.)
- Water quality (analyzing chemicals, water analysis)
- Waste management (analysis and transformation of agricultural and environmental pollutants in the soil-water zone)
Plant Science:
Horticulture and Cropping Systems Emphasis:- Orchard, greenhouse, or nursery management
- Golf course or parks superintendent
- Laboratory technician
- Supervisor or demonstrator of chemical or technical products Inspector of agricultural products
- Private businesses in irrigation equipment sales
- Work abroad through government or philanthropic foundations to help solve world food, soil, and environmental problems
- Garden center, seed, and chemical sales
- Agricultural production
- Owning or managing farm-related businesses
- Consulting
- Agricultural product sales
- Government agencies
- Genetic engineering
- Agribusiness
- Plant breeding
- Research laboratories
- Government agencies
- Agriculturally oriented research companies
- Chemical firms
- Work abroad through government or philanthropic foundations to help solve world food, soil, and environmental problems
- Academia
Graduate
- Biometerology
- Ecology
- Plant Science
- Soil Science
- Toxicology
- Master of Professional Studies in Horticulture (MPSH)
Biometerology:
- Research technicians and application engineers for:
- Consulting firms
- Environmental instrumentation firms
- Government research labs
- Research associates, post-doctoral fellows, staff scientists in government laboratories, and as faculty at universities.
Ecology:
- Research assistants for government agencies
- Faculty positions at universities
Plant Science:
- Plant breeder
- Plant genetics
- Fertilizer development
- Pesticide research and development
- Weed control
- Weed scientist
- Consulting scientist
- Plant disease control
- Research and development
- Sales Manage operations for large farms
Soil Science:
- Soil scientists with government agencies
- Conservation
- Land management
- Soil testing
- Soil fertility research
- Fertilizer development
- Monitoring and remedying environmental pollution in soil and water
- Environmental consultants
- Fertilizer retail Irrigation system design
- Waste management
- Mine land reclamation
Toxicology:
- Pharmaceutical research (often working for government regulatory agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency)
- Public health (industrial hygienists working to reduce workplace exposure)
- Mining industries (reducing environmental impacts of mine waste)
- Environmental remediation (stabilizing polluted sites)
- Professor, academia
Master of Professional Studies in Horticulture (MPSH):
- Water conservation programs with federal agencies, cities, counties, or water districts
- Manager of water conservation gardens
- Water conservation specialist
- Garden directors
- Working for Extension as county agents
- Aid with water-efficient irrigation planning
- Landscape construction, maintenance, and design
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