Horticulture & Park management

Horticulture Program Benefits

• Collaboration with nearby industry in Los Angeles County, one of the largest dollar-volume counties utilizing horticultural products in the world, provides opportunity for student field trips and job placement not available elsewhere.
• Practical approaches to horticulture with hands-on industry experience and interaction.
• Classes offered in blocks one day per week so students can work and earn a degree or certificate, and certificate program classes scheduled so students can earn a certificate by taking evening courses.
• Learning to propagate, produce, and market horticultural products through hands-on experience
• Horticulture and Equipment Club activities.
• Work Experience Program (earn units for on-the-job work experience).
• Individualized and personalized instruction with low instructor-to-student ratio.
• Full-time and part-time faculty with more than (60) years of practical industry experience.
• An Advisory Committee composed of many industry leaders in horticultural enterprises.