Texas A&M Kingsville offers a "ranch management" master's degree program for ranchers. Washington State offers a major in organic agriculture. Learn fishing sciences and management at Colorado State University to ensure conservation and proper use of fish populations. Students can study astrobiology (the search for extraterrestrial life) at the University of Washington and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Study Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies (specialized field of archaeology) at the graduate level at Brown College in Rhode Island. Some schools offer degrees in mortuary science, such as the University of Central Oklahoma and the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science. Study viticulture and enology, the study of grapes and wine, at Cornell University in New York.
Mississippi State College offers a degree in retail floristy. Learn about wholesaling, event design and display gardening. Become a professional nanny through the Sullivan University in Louisville, Kentucky, and learn more about working in day-care centers, country clubs, children's hospitals or homes. Students at Vincennes University in Indiana can major in bowling industry management and learn to run bowling centers. Get a degree in packaging at Michigan State University, the University of Wisconsin-Stout or Clemson University, S.C. Do a doctorate in decision sciences at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. The program helps future leaders in business dissect information and make decisions.
Major in adventure recreation at Green Mountain College in Vermont, and take jobs in outdoor recreation. At Mississippi State University, you can study golf and sports turf management, and learn to repair the grass. Prepare for a job as a turf manager at a school or sports arena, or as a golf superintendent. Or go into racetrack management through the University of Arizona. It is the only program in the United States that gives students educational study in the horse-racing industry.
Carnegie Mellon, in Pittsburgh, offers the only bagpipe major in the United States. Students at the school can choose different specific instruments to study. Major in puppetry at the University of Connecticut. The university is the only school in the United States that offers a bachelor's and master's program in puppetry.