• Career opportunities include management, production, marketing, or postharvest handling of vegetables, fruits, flowers, or ornamental plants; landscape contracting; salesperson and/or technical advisor with a commercial firm; field advisor or manager of nurseries, greenhouses, parks, arboretums, botanical gardens, and garden centers; teacher in high schools or technical schools; horticultural journalist; agricultural extension agent or governmental employee.
  • A student may select a curriculum for entrance into graduate school, which prepares for a career in horticultural research and/or teaching at the college or university level.