• BSc in Crop and Soil Sciences - Turfgrass at the Auburn University is a 4 year, 123-credit program.
  • It is an on-campus program offered on a full-time basis.
  • Turfgrass managers help build, maintain, and manage golf courses, athletic fields, parks, and other recreational areas.
  • The curriculum of each option allows you to focus on a specific segment of the turfgrass industry.
  • Plant scientists sustain and improve our current and future world as they work with foods, fibers, fuel, flowers, pharmaceuticals, urban forests, soil health, plant pests, and natural environs.
  • Plant Science students study biology, plant morphology and physiology, chemistry, entomology, physics, soil and water sciences, plant identification, plant pathology, plant propagation, and environmental horticulture.
  • The plant science degree offers diverse specializations that provide a wide range of professional opportunities.
  • The specializations provide students with an interdisciplinary perspective of these areas and pursue coursework that tracks them into a variety of job opportunities.
  • This specialization combines the study of grasses, soils, water, and pests affecting turf with the study of business and management. Career opportunities include work with golf courses, sports turf facilities, lawn-care companies, parks, agrichemical industries, cemeteries, environmental consulting firms, sod farms, government agencies, and preparation for graduate school.