The California Polytechnic College at San Luis Obispo has been perfecting its own bloodline of stallions since 1900. The four-year bachelor's of science program at Cal Poly offers a hands-on degree with internships and lots of experience with their herd of more than 100 horses.
Students in the equine management program can expect to take courses like equine biomechanics, equine and human communication, and equine nutrition. The program offers a wide variety of hands-on internship opportunities like weaning foals and grooming stallions. They even offer a year-long residency program that allows selected students to live and work at the equine center.
California Polytechnic State University
Animal Science Department
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
805-756-2419
[email protected]
The University of California at Davis has been raising draft horses since 1920. The current breeding program emphasizes performance horses, producing quality quarter horses, mules and warmblood horses.
The Center of Equine Health at UC Davis prepares graduate students for the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Degree. Students in this program will conduct scientific research in the diseases and treatments of horses.
Entrance to the Center for Equine Health program is very competitive, so Davis also offers summer programs and internships in foal management, stud management and breeding management for undergraduate students who want to gain hands-on equine experience before applying to the veterinary medicine program.
Center for Equine Health
University of California, Davis
2251 Meyer Hall
Davis, CA 95616
530-754-4156
www.ucdavis.edu
Santa Rosa Junior College offers a certificate program, as well as an equine science degree that would allow you to transfer to a four-year university.
Students in the certificate program complete 30 units in subjects like farrier science and therapeutic riding program procedures. Students in the equine science degree program complete the same 30-unit specialization with the addition of the general studies classes that they will need to transfer to a four-year university program. These classes differ according to the discipline. For example, students who wish to transfer to the pre-veterinary studies programs at U.C. Davis must take chemistry and physics classes.
Santa Rosa Campus
1501 Mendocino Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95401-4395
707-527-4011
www.santarosa.edu/