Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

• 6 - Biological, Biomedical and Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
• 62 - Agricultural Sciences
• 01.11 - Plant Sciences

01.1103 - Horticultural Science

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific principles related to the cultivation of garden and ornamental plants, including fruits, vegetables, flowers, and landscape and nursery crops. These programs include courses in specific types of plants, such as citrus; breeding horticultural varieties; physiology of horticultural species; and the scientific management of horticultural plant development and production through the life cycle.

• Example Program Names:

  • Horticultural science

• Exclusion

  • Horticulture(01.0601)
  • Ornamental horticulture(01.0603)
  • Greenhouse operations and management(01.0604)
  • Landscape gardening(01.0605)
  • Nursery technology(01.0606)
  • Floristry(01.0608)