College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources

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College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources
Ken Grafton
1892
888 Undergrads
315 Morrill Hall
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/academics/


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Mission

The College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources offers academic programs that open doors to exciting opportunities in the expanding realm of agriculture. Students from both urban and rural areas are preparing for careers in such diverse areas as biotechnology, industry, business, sales, marketing, finance, natural resources management, research, government, international trade, law and communications.

Career opportunities are excellent. More than 97 percent of our graduates are employed within three months after graduation. With a student-faculty ratio of 7-to-1, students receive individualized attention from faculty who are intimately involved in the region’s agriculture. The college is in an urban agricultural center close to both production agriculture and processing. This provides unique and marketable "hands-on" experience for students involved in research projects and industry internships.

Structure

Academic Departments

Undergraduate Majors

  • Agribusiness
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Agricultural Systems Management
  • Animal and Range Sciences
  • Biotechnology
  • Crop and Weed Sciences
  • Economics
  • Equine Studies
  • Food Safety
  • Food Science
  • General Agriculture
  • Horticulture
  • Microbiology
  • Natural Resources Management
  • Pre-Veterinary Medicine
  • Soil Science
  • Sports and Urban Turfgrass Management
  • Veterinary Technology

Additional Majors in Other Colleges

  • Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  • Agricultural Communication
  • Agricultural Education

Graduate Programs

  • Agribusiness and Applied Economics (M.S.)
  • Animal and Range Sciences (M.S. and Ph.D.)
  • Cereal Science (M.S. and Ph.D.)
  • Entomology (M.S. and Ph.D.)
  • Horticulture (M.S.)
  • International Agribusiness (M.S.)
  • Microbiology (M.S.)
  • Molecular Pathogenesis (Ph.D.)
  • Plant Pathology (M.S. and Ph.D.)
  • Plant Sciences (M.S. and Ph.D.)
  • Soil Science (M.S. and Ph.D.)

Interdisciplinary Programs

  • Cellular and Molecular Biology (Ph.D.)
  • Food Safety (M.S. and Ph.D.)
  • Genomics (M.S. and Ph.D.)
  • Natural Resources Management (M.S. and Ph.D.)

Additional Majors in Other Colleges

  • Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (M.S. and Ph.D.)
  • Agricultural Education (M.S. and Ph.D.)

Student Organizations

There are numerous student organizations and fraternities/sororities that are affiliated in some way to programs offered by the College.

Organizations

Fraternities/Sororities

Scholarships

The College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources at North Dakota State University provides one of the best college-based scholarship programs in the Upper Midwest.

Scholarships range from $100 to $3,000 per year. Some are renewable for up to four years, depending on the student’s academic performance. The College selectively matches several of its scholarships for gifted incoming freshmen with scholarships administered by the Office of Admission.

Funds for scholarships are provided by individuals, companies, foundations and organizations who are aware of the commitment a student must make to complete a college education. They established these scholarships to encourage students who are willing to pursue academic excellence while enrolled in the College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources at NDSU. Scholarship recipients and donors are recognized at a luncheon held on campus each year.

History

The College began as the Department of Agriculture as early as 1892. Under the four-year curriculum for the Department of Agriculture, the study consisted of: freshman year - general agriculture, breeds and breeding, and crops; sophomore year - farm buildings and machinery; junior year - dairying and stock feeding; and senior year - agricultural review, agriculture, and elective work.

By 1907, the Department of Agriculture was broken into three broad divisions: Division of Applied Agriculture (elements of agriculture, farm mechanics, breeding, and dairying); Division of Agronomy (grasses and grains, soil physics, agricultural physics, judging grains, grasses and grains, and crop rotation); and the Division of Animal Husbandry (breeds of live stock, feeds and feeding, and judging live stock). By 1910 the Division of Dairying had been added, and consisted of all aspects of dairy work, both theoretical and practical.

In 1917, six schools within the North Dakota Agricultural College were organized. One of the schools was the School of Agriculture . Three departments were in the school: the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Horticulture and Forestry, and the Winter Short Course in Agriculture. By 1923, the School of Agriculture encompassed the Departments of: agricultural economics, agricultural education, agronomy, animal husbandry, dairy husbandry, and horticulture and forestry.

By 1933, the following departmental majors were offered in the School of Agriculture: agricultural economics, agricultural education, agronomy-crops, agronomy-soils, animal husbandry, dairy husbandry-dairy cattle, dairy husbandry-dairy manufacturers, horticulture, poultry husbandry, and bacteriology. By 1954-55, the School had remained relatively the same, with the exception of the addition of the Division of Plant Industry, which included the Departments of Agronomy (Crops & Soils) and Horticulture and Forestry.

On December 8, 1960, North Dakota Agricultural College became North Dakota State University and all schools within the university became colleges. By the mid-1960s, the College of Agriculture consisted of the Departments of Agricultural Biochemistry, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Bacteriology, Botany, Cereal Technology, Dairy husbandry, Entomology, Horticulture, Plant Pathology, Poultry Husbandry, Soils, and Veterinary Science. In addition, agricultural short courses were available, as well as an Associate Degree in Agriculture.

By the mid-1980s, the following curricular were available for the bachelor of science degree: agricultural economics, agricultural education, agricultural extension, agricultural mechanization, agronomy, animal and range sciences, bacteriology, entomology, food science, general agriculture, horticulture, plant pathology or soil science. By 1992, the Associate Degree was no longer offered.

To help meet the existing and future demand for qualified food safety professionals, the Great Plains Institute Of Food Safety at North Dakota State University was created in 2000 with funds provided by the USDA. The Institute offered five undergraduate and graduate options. The food safety minor, major, M.S., Ph.D., and graduate certificate programs became inter-disciplinary courses of study.

At their June 20, 2002 meeting, the State Board of Higher Education approved a name change from the College of Agriculture to the College of Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources. This name is the one currently used today.

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