Environmental Horticulture

The program provides excellent training in areas important to green industry employers and offers strong preparation for students seeking a graduate degree in plant science or landscape architecture. Students in the Horticultural Business concentration who complete the minor in Business Administration have the option to continue one extra year to complete an MBA program through the Maine Business School.

Our faculty are approachable, encouraging and student-centered. The core classes in our curriculum have a low student to faculty ratio, allowing instructors to engage with undergraduate students and serve as professional mentors. Faculty research programs address current issues in horticulture and undergraduates have the opportunity to participate in the research including but not limited to: cold tolerance; evaluation and introduction of woody and herbaceous ornamental plants; water use efficiency in greenhouse production; potato breeding and production; and sustainable vegetable and small fruit production.

Students with this degree are prepared to enter any sector of the green industry including but not limited to: growers of food, recreational and medicinal cannabis, and ornamental plants for the landscape plant industry; ownership, management and crew leader positions in landscape design, build and maintenance businesses; grounds managers for private estates and public entities;.and agricultural outreach services such as cooperative extension.