What Can I do With a Major

Major: Horticulture

Description of Major:

Students wishing to study horticulture at Mizzou major in Plant Sciences and select one of eight different emphasis areas available to them.  Most students interested in horticulture choose landscape horticulture, ornamental plant production and operations management, or turfgrass management as their emphasis area, although there are horticultural applications in the remaining emphasis areas as well.

This branch of agriculture involves production and use of fruits vegetables and ornamental plants. Study of trees, flowers, shrubs, vines, and grasses. Horticulture sites: greenhouses, garden centers, nurseries play important role in home gardening and landscaping.

(http://horticulture.missouri.edu/undergraduate.htm)

Related Career Titles:

Agronomist
Biochemist
Botanist
Dietician
Educator
Entomologist
Floriculturist
Florist
Food processing manager
Food scientist
Forester
Forestry technician
Garden magazine writer
Horticulturist
Horticulture therapist
Landscape architect
Landscape gardener
Nursery manager
Nutritionist
Park ranger
Plant breeder
Plant geneticist
Plant mycologist
Plant pathologist
Plant physiologist
Research horticulturist
Seed analyst
Soil conservationist

Employment Areas

Colleges, universities, and other educational organizations
Local, state, and federal governments
Agricultural service companies
Commercial research and development laboratories
Wholesale distributors
Food product companies
Magazines and newspapers as garden writers
Public and botanical gardens
Private estates
Golf courses
Turf and range management
Nursery management
Plant breeding 

Related Links:

American Society for Horticultural Science
http://www.ashs.org/

American nursery and landscape association
http://www.anla.org/

Society of American florist
http://www.safnow.org/

American orchid society
http://orchidweb.org/

National Junior Horticultural Association
http://www.njha.org/