Students come from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences and have many horticultural career options. Your classmates are a mix of traditional college students and returning students who may be preparing for a career change or want to further develop their horticultural interest. You will develop technical, scientific, educational, management, research, leadership, and interpersonal skills to succeed in your chosen fields.

The polytechnic approach provides you with a thorough hands-on program to turn your interest in plants into successful careers. Class labs are actual growing enterprises and the UMC campus provides excellent opportunities to hone your landscaping and designing skills. Complementary liberal arts and business management courses prepare you for a satisfying and life-long career as a horticulture professional.

UMC combines a solid foundation of applied science courses with practical mechanical and technical expertise. We blend in a strong business operations and management background and interpersonal communication skills for a well-balanced horticultural science program. As a result, UMC graduates will have the experience and versatility to adapt to the ever-changing demands of the horticulture industry.

Facilities

The excellent facilities UMC provides for the Horticulture program lend strength to students' experiences.

• Production Horticulture Building
  This facility is used as a production horticulture lab modeled directly after those within the horticulture industry. UMC horticulture students gain direct experience with the culture, care, and growth of commercial horticulture crops here.
  
• Bergland Laboratory
  The building serves as a center for teaching, for applied student lab experiences, and for research in the botanical and horticultural sciences.

Horticulture Club

The UMC Horticulture Club actively participates in conferences, nursery seminars, entrepreneurial, and community projects. Members grow and sell seasonal plants in addition to original floral designs and participate in annual pesticide and tree inspector recertification training seminars. Field trips include:

• MN Landscape and Nursery Assn. Annual Conference
• MN Commercial Flower Growers Assn. Annual Conference
• ND Nursery Greenhouse Assn. Annual Conference
• Traveling Nursery Seminars
• Industry Sites
• 2001 trip to British Columbia

A Campus-Wide Focus on Technology

The distinctive electronic learning environment at UMC complements the business management curriculum. All students are issued laptop computers and use them and related software on a daily basis. The resulting technological skill--or techno-savvy--combined with the degree program's career preparation makes UMC's graduates highly marketable and sought-after by employers. Learn more about UMC's technology-rich environment.

Great Opportunities to Study Abroad

As a coordinate campus of the University of Minnesota system, UMC and its students benefit from the connections the U of M has developed as a leader in international education opportunities.  No matter what your major, you can learn a great deal from a study abroad experience! Learn more at UMC's Study Abroad Office.

One-Rate Tuition Plan

University of Minnesota, Crookston on-campus students are charged a single tuition rate per credit regardless of their resident/nonresident status. Students from other states can save more than $4,000 per year with UMC's one-rate tuition policy. Learn more about UMC tuition rates and student fees.

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