College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
Alan R Sams, DEAN The College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences offers graduate programs in 17 traditional disciplines in agriculture, forestry, and a wide variety of biological sciences, from the fundamental to the applied. The college awards the MS and PhD degrees as well as the Master of Agricultural Education and Master of Forest Resources professional degrees. These postbaccalaureate degree programs are designed primarily to provide continuing education for individuals whose interests lie outside a research-oriented profession.
These are the majors offered by the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
The program in Applied Economics is a cooperative effort between the Department of Applied Economics and Statistics and the Department of Economics in the College of Business and Behavioral Science. The programs in Biosystems Engineering and Environmental Toxicology are jointly administered with the College of Engineering and Science.
Through cooperative programs with state, federal, and private agencies, students can extend their research off campus to the Greenwood Genetics Center, research and education centers spanning South Carolina, and state and national forests of the Savannah River Basin. Proximity to the Blue Ridge Mountains provides access to one of the most biologically diverse regions of the world.
Courses are offered in experimental statistics and agricultural mechanization to provide minors for students in other areas and in biological sciences, biology instruction, community and rural development, rural sociology, nutrition, botany, crop and soil environmental science, horticulture, plant pathology, and plant physiology to provide electives for students in other areas.
