Environmental education dominates the curriculum at Unity College in Maine. Self-described as "America's environmental college," Unity College offers a Bachelor of Science degree in landscape horticulture. The college practices a hands-on approach to education that emphasizes the importance of an environmentally sustainable future. Courses include soil fertility, sustainable landscape horticulture, arboriculture, environmental plant physiology, landscape design, and plant diseases and insects. Recent annual project assignments include designing a street scape for a local town, seeding a meadow to enhance biodiversity and evaluating area trees for failure potential. According to the college website, graduates typically enter careers as arborists, landscape designers, environmental consultants, landscapers and permaculturists. U.S. News and World Report ranked the small, private college as one of America's best colleges in 2010. More than 500 students and 60 professors call the college home.
Unity College
90 Quaker Hill Road
Unity, ME 04988
207-948-3131
unity.edu
Delaware Valley College in Pennsylvania offers bachelor’s degrees in horticulture in three areas of expertise: commercial crop production, marketing and plant health management, hydroponics crop science, and plant sciences and biotechnology. These degrees prepare students for careers as government inspectors, plant pest specialists, production managers, researchers, hydroponic crop producers and plant geneticists, according to the Delaware Valley College website. Delaware Valley College specializes in life sciences and promises potential students individualized attention and small class sizes. This small, private school was founded in 1896. The 550-acre campus is located just 70 miles south of New York City. In 2010, Delaware Valley College hosted almost 1,700 students. U.S. News and World Report ranked the college as one of the top baccalaureate colleges in the North in 2010.
Delaware Valley College
700 East Butler Avenue
Doylestown, PA 18901
215-345-1500
delval.edu
Florida Southern College offers students horticultural Bachelor of Science degrees in four specialties: landscape horticultural production and design, recreational turfgrass management, horticultural science and citrus. The program centers around a strong, science-based curriculum that includes business courses, field trips and professional internships. In 2010, U.S. News and World Report ranked Florida Southern as one of the top 10 baccalaureate colleges in the South. Florida Southern hosted 1,800 students in 2010 on its suburban campus, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture on a single site.
Florida Southern College
111 Lake Hollingsworth Drive
Lakeland, FL 33801
863-680-4111
flsouthern.edu