This San Luis Obispo, California, university, nicknamed Cal Poly, has a College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Science, nicknamed CAFES, offering degrees from food science to tourism administration. CAFES is involved in five major programs, including a program with the Peace Corps where students can take a year of in-school studying and two years abroad working within a remote village. The students also work on the Swanton Pacific Ranch to engage in the college's mission to "learn by doing."
The University of Wyoming, located in Laramie, has a College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Degrees are offered in veterinary science to molecular biology. The college also features four agricultural experiment stations across the state to conduct research in laboratories as well as on farms and ranches for hands-on experience in the field. The projects worked on at research stations range from dissecting sheep placenta to the economics of farming systems.
The University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign campus has a College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. It offers environmental and agricultural studies programs as well as a human and community development degree. The college's undergraduate and graduate programs host more than 2,000 students and trains them in agricultural science fields to develop healthier and safer ways to live, according to the college's mission. The college also has six research stations across the state to provide students with a hands-on learning experience.
Alabama's Auburn University features a College of Agriculture that hosts a rural sociology program, an agronomy and soil program and also a forestry program. The students have 14 research stations across the state to work on projects from pond construction to general farm maintenance. During a school year, the students working within the research stations complete about 250 work requests from local farms or forestry agencies, according to Auburn's resource management office.