Horticultural and Turfgrass Sciences
With a degree in Horticultural and Turfgrass Sciences, you can turn a love of plants and fresh air into a lucrative career. Manage golf courses and athletic fields. Own your own nursery. Provide environmental consulting. Develop shade-tolerant strains of grass. Design environmental plantings for urban areas. Manage a commercial orchard, greenhouse, or botanical garden. Design, install and maintain Interiorscapes. The opportunities are endless. View Curriculum.
Environmental Crop and Soil Sciences
Crop production agriculture has greater impact on environmental quality of air, soil, and water than any other human activity. Thus, proper management of cropping systems will yield marked environmental benefits and enhanced sustainability of this all-important industry. In Environmental Crop and Soil Sciences, students will learn ways to improve crop response to environmental conditions, improve efficiency of resource use for crops, reduce use of water resources, evaluate productivity and efficiency of cropping systems, conserve soil and water for future generations, and more. In other words, students will learn to improve environmental quality by improving management of soils and cropping systems. View Curriculum.
B.S. of Science in Horticulture @ Distance
The Bachelor of Science in Horticulture degree program at a distance is designed specifically to meet the needs of today’s working professional. Horticulture is the art and science of cultivating edible plants (fruits, nuts, and vegetables) and ornamental plants (annual and perennial flowers and woody plants). Today’s horticulture students focus on the challenges and practices of genetics and breeding, propagation, biotechnology, production, management, handling and storage, marketing, and utilization of ornamental plants in both the interior and exterior landscape. This degree program requires a minimum of 120 semester hours of undergraduate coursework. While students take the majority of their coursework on-line from Texas Tech University, they may be required to take a course, such as Introductory Chemistry, from another institution such as a local community college. Credits from other institutions can be evaluated for potential transfer, however, the last 30 hours of the degree must be completed from Texas Tech University. View Curriculum.
Consider the benefits of Texas Tech University's Bachelors of Science in Horticulture Degree Completion Program@ a distance!
- All coursework can be completed online or via ITV.
- Educational goals can be pursued without sacrificing personal or professional commitments.
- Student support services are designed to meet the needs of distance learning students.
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Texas Tech University,
Department of Plant and Soil,
Campus Box 42122, Lubbock, TX 79409 
806. 742-2837 