Horticulture

Horticulturists manage everything from pruning trees and optimising fruit sizes to ensuring year-round production and meeting supermarket demands. They also focus on sustainability by improving soil health, plant genetics, and minimising chemical use to run farms effectively. 

In this hands-on major, you’ll study how to grow different types of plants like fruits, vegetables and flowers using field and protected cropping practices. You'll also learn how plants can be used to improve the environment by cleaning the air, conserving soil, supporting biodiversity and helping to cool urban areas. 

Participate in hands-on practicals, industry visits and field trips to local fruit, vegetable and flower producers throughout your degree, and gain in-demand practical skills and industry connections.  

Take advantage of a 120-hour industry placement where you apply theory to practice or enhance your research skills with the Summer and Winter Research Programs.  

Make the most of a smaller cohort experience and spend valuable time in the lab where you’ll learn scientific techniques in plant breeding, biochemistry, physiology and propagation. This will help you enhance plant yield, quality, nutritional value, and resistance to insects, diseases and environmental stresses.

You’ll have access to some of the best plant science teaching and research facilities in the Southern Hemisphere, including over 1,000 hectares of farmland, advanced research nursery and glasshouse facilities, and a pesticide wind tunnel facility.