From MSU Today: It’s not your father’s college of agriculture, says MSU’s Eunice Foster. The modern version of MSU’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is “more than you imagined,” she says.

The college is home to 23 undergraduate majors in 13 departments, with graduate programs leading to masters and doctoral degrees in every department. The college also offers two-year certificate programs through the Institute of Agricultural Technology.

Foster leads that institute and is the associate dean for undergraduate students and programs in the college. She says the college offers a wide variety of programs that allow its students to pursue numerous careers. The college certainly has disciplines that focus on production agriculture, but far more of its students graduate with degrees in packaging, construction management and other areas that aren’t traditionally thought to be agricultural careers.

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