Agronomy (B.S.) - Business and Industry Option

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Agronomy includes crop, soil, weed, range, and environmental sciences. Students in agronomy have diverse interests, including crop production and physiology; crop breeding; soil management, fertility, and conservation; soil and water quality; physical and chemical properties of soils; forages; and range management.

Bachelor’s degree requirements

Agronomy (33 credit hours)

AGRON 101 - Agronomy Orientation Credits: 1
AGRON 220 - Crop Science Credits: 4
AGRON 305 - Soils Credits: 4
AGRON 330 - Weed Science Credits: 3
AGRON 360 - Crop Growth and Development Credits: 3
AGRON 375 - Soil Fertility Credits: 3
AGRON 405 - Internship in Agronomy Credits: 0-3 (3 credit hours)
Agronomy Electives Credits: 9

Select one course from:

AGRON 502 - International Experience in Agronomy Credits: 0-6 (3 credit hours)
AGRON 602 - Agronomy Capstone Experience Credits: 3
AGRON 655 - Site Specific Agriculture Credits: 3
GENAG 582 - Natural Resources/Environmental Science Project (NRES) Credits: 3

Social Sciences, Humanities, & Business (38 credit hours)

ACCTG 231 - Accounting for Business Operations Credits: 3
COMM 105 - Public Speaking IA Credits: 2
ECON 110 - Principles of Macroeconomics Credits: 3
ENGL 100 - Expository Writing I Credits: 3
ENGL 200 - Expository Writing II Credits: 3
Agricultural Economics & Agricultural Business/Business Administration Electives Credits: 12
Communications Elective Credits: 3
Social Sciences/Humanities Electives Credits: 9

General Electives (10-12 credit hours)

Natural & Applied Sciences (25-27 credit hours)

BIOL 198 - Principles of Biology Credits: 4
CHM 210 - Chemistry I Credits: 4
CHM 230 - Chemistry II Credits: 4
CIS 102 - Introduction to Spreadsheet Applications Credits: 1
MATH 100 - College Algebra Credits: 3
STAT 350 - Business and Economic Statistics I Credits: 3

Kansas State University

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Agronomy (B.S.) - Business and Industry Option

Bachelor’s degree requirements

Agronomy (33 credit hours)

Select one course from:

Social Sciences, Humanities, & Business (38 credit hours)

General Electives (10-12 credit hours)

Natural & Applied Sciences (25-27 credit hours)

One of the following courses:

Natural & Applied Sciences Elective Credits: 3

Agriculture (12 credit hours)

Total credit hours required for graduation (120)