Undergraduate Interest Areas
Pursue your passions!
A key to making the right college choice is learning about degrees that align with your interests and vision for your future. The Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences wants to help you explore. Dive into any or all of the below interest areas to learn about related majors, minors, clubs, and more—even get to know some of our amazing students!
Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
Grow your awareness of opportunities related to the environment, natural resources, and sustainability. Learn about academic disciplines and professional lives creating sustainable products, educating the public, developing and influencing policy, and more.
Plants and the Green Industry
Discover academic and career possibilities with plants and the green industry. Prepare for a professional life forging better ways to produce crops for food and fibers, managing forests in a changing climate, designing environmentally friendly public spaces, running a sustainable urban farm, and more.
Business, Education, and Community
Learn about opportunities in business, education, and community. Get ready for a career transforming lives in the classroom, at the bold frontiers of industry, as a changemaker in government, within community organizations, and more.
Food and Health
Consider the wide range of academic and professional paths available in health and food. Prepare for careers preventing contagious outbreaks, ensuring all have access to nutritious food, providing lifesaving medical care to people or animals, and more.
Animals
Uncover the many academic and professional pathways to a life working with animals. Launch a career that will have you out on the land, in the halls of government, on the corporate board, in the laboratory, running your own business, and beyond.
