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Graduate Program
The Virginia Tech
Department of Horticulture offers programs leading to the Master's and
Doctoral degrees. Areas of specialization within vegetable crops, fruit
crops, horticulture therapy, ornamentals, urban horticulture, international
development, and landscape horticulture (M.S. only) include:
• plant breeding and genetics
• growth
and development
• anatomy and morphology
• growth regulation
• nutrition
• physiology
• molecular biology
• intensification of production through modern cultural practices
and innovative approaches
• horticulture to enhance the quality of life
The faculty are stationed both on campus in Blacksburg and at several
experiment stations throughout the state. Although not all faculty serve
directly as advisors to graduate students, all are available as resources
to graduate programs.
In addition to the graduate programs in horticulture offered on the Blacksburg
campus, a non-thesis graduate program is now available at the Hampton
Roads Agricultural Research & Extension Center (HRAREC) in the Norfolk-Virginia
Beach area. Known as the off-campus Master's in Horticulture, the program
offers a single graduate course each semester for students in one of Virginia's
most populous areas. It is intended primarily for those already employed
in the horticultural industry to earn a Master's degree on a part-time
basis that will be equivalent to the on-campus full-time degree. Courses
are taught by faculty at HRAREC with occasional visits from on-campus
faculty in particular specializations. Students will be eligible for the
M.S. after satisfactorily completing 30 credit hours.
Dr. Roger Harris is the contact person for prospective applicants to the graduate program. E-mail: rharris@vt.edu, phone: 540-231-4026.
Julia Bartens is the contact person for the Horticulture Graduate Student Organization. If you would like further information about this organization, please contact Julia @ jbartens@vt.edu.
