Majors, Minors and Certificates

Interested in turning your passion into profit? This program allows you to combine the breadth of business with the depth of an area that interests you.

Over the next three decades, the global population is expected to grow by approximately two billion people, creating a greater demand for food production and emphasizing the critical need for worldwide agriculture education. Our program is preparing future leaders to fill that need.

Tailor this major to your interests by taking courses in one of these areas:

• Agricultural and Environmental Technology
• Agricultural Teacher Education
• Extension Education

Getting into veterinary (or any professional) school is extremely competitive. The Animal and Nutritional Sciences program provides challenging and innovative experiences to give you the best preparation possible.

As the world’s population continues to grow, it’s now more important than ever to address the increasing demand for food and fiber. Gain valuable knowledge in animal behavior, health, nutrition and management that will prepare you to make an immediate impact.

This flexible, interdisciplinary program prepares you to work in creative industries and provide innovative solutions to challenges facing our world today.

This program melds natural resource management, business and development of energy resources. Our graduates emerge as highly trained and sought-after professionals, equipped with the skills needed to make an immediate impact in the energy industry.

Offering a broad curriculum in energy, the environment, economics and entrepreneurship, the E*Quad program will prepare you to enter multiple sectors of a fast-growing industry.

Tailor this major to your interests by taking courses in one of these areas:

• Economics
• Energy
• Entrepreneurship
• Environment

With this major’s flexibility, you can design a program of study tailored to your environmental and natural resource interests, such as water use and quality, soil protection, waste management, ecosystem management or land use.

Microorganisms are everywhere — from plants and animals to air, soil and water. This major prepares you for careers related to the environment, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and food production and safety. In the accelerated option, you can earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in five years.

This major combines interdisciplinary training in environmental protection sciences with a specialization in either pest management or soil and water conservation.

Tailor this major to your interests by taking courses in one of these areas:

• Environmental Assessment and Reclamation
• Soil and Water Sciences

Fashion is one of the most dynamic, globally integrated and culturally significant industries in the world. Peer behind the gloss and glamour to discover how design concepts come to life – and then are marketed to consumers.

Tailor this major to your interests by taking courses in one of these areas:

• Fashion Merchandising
• Fashion Design

Learn about the balancing act of managing land for timber production and wood products while considering wildlife habitat, recreational opportunities and water quality.

Tailor this major to your interests by taking courses in one of these areas:

• Arboriculture and Urban Forestry
• Forest Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
• Forest Management

Plants are the root of what makes our world healthy and beautiful. Our students study the physiology, culture, harvest, quality control, sales and utilization of horticultural crops.

Tailor this major to your interests by taking courses in one of these areas:

• Specialty Crop Production
• Landscape and Turf Management
• Public Horticulture
• Plant Health Management
• Plant Science
• Entrepreneurship/Agriculture Business

Nutrition is essential for good health and well-being.

Tailor this major to your interests by taking courses in one of these areas:

• Dietetics

Our graduates do much more than design houses; they design hospitals and hotels, offices and schools, textiles and furniture. They represent manufacturers, create lighting systems and preserve historic buildings.

Landscape architects design for landscape and community sustainability, solve practical issues — from soil to water to poverty — and combine qualitative analysis with the design process. The ultimate goal: creating a vision for the future.

Choose three minors and a program of elective courses that fit your career objectives. This program is for students who want to focus on academic programs in the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design.

Interested in sustainable agriculture? This major combines the concepts of crop production and environmental protection. You can focus on crop science, soil health, plant health management or entrepreneurship and agricultural business.

Tailor this major to your interests by taking courses in one of these areas:

• Crop Science
• Soil Health
• Plant Health Management
• Entrepreneurship/Agriculture Business

If you’re passionate about the outdoors and the conservation of natural resources and animal habitats, this major is for you.

Tailor this major to your interests by taking courses in one of these areas:

• Fisheries Science
• Wildlife Science

The wood products industry employs 1.6 million people nationwide, yet only 21 American universities offer programs specifically designed to educate professionals to manage and provide technical expertise to the industry. WVU is one of them.

Tailor this major to your interests by taking courses in one of these areas:

• Wood Processing
• Renewable Materials Marketing
• Sustainable Low-Rise Residential Construction
• Forest Utilization