Horticulture & park management

Horticulture Program Benefits

The Mt. SAC Horticulture program offers students many 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.