The Graduate Program involves training and experience in research, teaching, and professional communications with peers, industry and the public.
Students have access to research facilities, including laboratories, crop cafeteria, greenhouses, growth chambers, and both on- and off-campus field research stations. Graduate students also receive expertise of about 30 faculty members in the Horticulture Departments, as well as the advisory expertise of many faculties from across campus in basic plant biology, pathology, entomology, forestry, agronomy, genetics, biochemistry, marketing, food science, health and nutrition etc.