• Top-rated.?Cornell is consistently ranked as one of the best universities for plant science in the world. Here they can learn how to make a significant impact on food security, climate change, conservation of biodiversity, sustainable living, and many other challenging problems.
  • Great classes. We offer more than 130 undergraduate classes about plants, all with small class sizes. They can also choose from more than 3,000 other classes in almost every subject imaginable.
  • Integrative approaches. Plant science draws on disciplines as wide-ranging as engineering, medicine, space science, chemistry, physics, and even art, history, and language to advance our understanding of the role of plants on the human condition. They will find all these disciplines at Cornell.
  • Caring and enthusiastic community. The plant science community at Cornell consists of more than 100 scientists, nearly 200 graduate students from all over the world, and a very diverse population of undergraduates who are bright, motivated and committed to making the world a better place.
  • Hortus Forum horticulture club plant sale.Living laboratory.The Cornell campus features resources including state-of-the-art labs, greenhouses, herbarium, conservatory, farms, natural areas and a philosophy that the campus is a living laboratory.