Bachelor of Applied Science - Horticulture at Olds College

What can you expect from our program?

Leverage your two-year diploma into a degree, and grow your career to the next level. The Horticulture Bachelor of Applied Science Degree builds on learning from the Horticulture Technician Diploma to provide you with knowledge and advanced technical skills. Courses in science and technology are combined with business concepts enabling you to assume positions of responsibility within a horticultural business or be your own boss and start up your own operation.

What will you learn?

Students focus on advancing their skills learned from the diploma and have the opportunity to take advantage of our outstanding facilities, which include a sprawling botanic garden, state-of-the-art managed wetlands, landscape demonstration plots and pavilion.

This is the perfect program for those who like to learn environmental and operations management on the job. Students will develop expertise in areas such as:

• Integrated pest management
• Research methods and sustainable site technologies

Your second year is spent out in the field working in the industry under Olds College’s unique eight-month Directed Field Study curriculum.

Your Future

Job opportunities include: The Horticulture Bachelor of Applied Science Degree program allows aspiring students the opportunity to enter into senior management positions.