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Create and sustain urban green spaces, community gardens, or golf courses. Oversee greenhouse operations. Assist nations in achieving food security. Launch innovative high-value crops that can be enhanced through processing. Enhance indoor and outdoor aesthetics while promoting energy conservation, pollution reduction, and sustainable food production. Pioneer energy-efficient, eco-friendly methods for cultivating greenhouse plants during harsh prairie winters.
Horticulture explores the biology, enhancement, cultivation, and application of fruits, vegetables, flowers, medicinal plants, ornamentals, trees, shrubs, and turf grasses in both outdoor and greenhouse settings. This multifaceted agricultural field blends artistry with scientific principles, offering careers ranging from greenhouse and golf course supervision to food cultivation, landscape design, research, education, and more.
Cultivating and utilizing horticultural products and decorative plants presents avenues for growth and variety within Canada's agricultural industry. Nutraceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, and horticultural crop supply/maintenance are expanding sectors with promising prospects for business ventures.
Students can enter this program directly from high school
Required high school classes
Biology 30
Chemistry 30
Foundations of Mathematics 30 or Pre-Calculus 30
Students can be admitted into this college with one subject deficiency that must be cleared before the second year of study.
English language proficiency
IELTS (Academic) - Overall Band Score: 6.5. With minimum individual scores of Reading: 6, Listening: 6, Speaking: 6, Writing: 6
TOEFL iBT - Internet Based: 86. With minimum individual scores of Reading: 19, Listening: 19, Speaking: 19, Writing: 19
Cambridge C1 Advanced - Overall score of 176
Canadian Academic English Language Assessment – 70. With minimum individual scores of Reading: 60, Listening: 60, Speaking: 60, Writing: 60
Duolingo English Test (DET) – 110. With minimum individual scores of: Literacy: 95, Conversation: 95, Comprehension: 95, Production: 95
PTE Academic - Overall score of 63. With minimum individual skills scores of Reading: 59, Listening: 59, Speaking: 59, Writing: 59