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Floriculture and Nursery Production Management,
The Floriculture and Nursery Production Management graduate certificate is a 12 credit hour program designed for nursery, greenhouse and garden center professionals; extension agents involved in horticulture-related programs; and K-12 science teachers.
Description
The program offers a selection of courses focusing on floral and nursery crop production, including business management. Core courses provide a solid science background, enabling the student to gain a greater understanding of how ornamental and floral plants grow. This basic knowledge is then interwoven with practical cultural and production methods.
All coursework for this certificate is completed online through Great Plains IDEA consortium.
Applying for Admission
Standard requirements for all graduate programs
- Application for Admission with $50 non-refundable application fee.
- Transcripts (unofficial): Uploaded as part of application form.
If International: Uploads must include all college- or university-level transcripts or mark sheets (records of courses and marks earned), with certificates, diplomas, and degrees plus certified English translations.
After admission: Official documents are required from all students who are admitted and enroll. Photocopies of certified records are not acceptable. International students enrolled in other U.S. institutions may have certified copies of all foreign records sent directly to the Office of Graduate Studies by their current school’s registrar office.
- If applicant’s native language is not English, verification of English proficiency
is required.
When sending TOEFL scores, our institution code is 6877 and a department code is not needed.
- If applicant is not a US citizen and expects an F or J visa: financial information.
- Applicants must also fulfill any additional requirements the department specifies at the time of application.
Additional requirements specific to this program
- Academics: GPA of 3.0 or higher (undergraduate and/or graduate)
- Resume/CV
- Personal Statement: In 1-2 pages, your statement should address the following: 1) your professional goals and career aspirations and specifically what you plan to do with your degree; 2) background experiences, events, and/or education that have influenced your professional goals; 3) how enrolling in this program in this department at Nebraska will assist you in meeting your professional goals.
- Additional Information: Enter a description of any original creative tasks or output related to your discipline.
- Three letters of recommendation
Certificate programs are not considered degree programs, additionally, coursework for this program is delivered primarily online, so international students should be aware that admission to this program is ineligible for immigration forms for an F-1 student visa.
Admission Application Deadlines
Not accepting applications at this time.
Department
Graduate Chair
Certificate Advisor
Support Staff
Program Faculty
Blaine Johnson (bio)
Plant Breeding, Design and Analysis of Field Crop Experiments, Plant Breeding of Hybrid Crops, Teaching Applied Plant Breeding
Alexander Pavlista (bio)
Potato Production and Pest Management, Potato Physiology, Plant Growth Regulators
Chris Proctor (bio)
Weed Management
Daren Redfearn (bio)
Integrated Forage, Crop, and Beef Systems
Terrance Riordan (bio)
Breeding and Development of Turfgrasses, Fertilizer, Pesticides and Energy
Leah Sandall (bio)
Agronomy and Plant Science
Dipak Santra (bio)
Develop and Enhance Germplasm and Cultivars of New and Existing Alternative Crops for Sustainable Production under Dry Land Farming Conditions in Northern High Plains of the USA
Walter Schacht (bio)
Plant-Grazing Interactions, Drought and Defoliation
Daniel Schachtman (bio)
Molecular Physiology
James Schnable (bio)
Computational Biology
Charles Shapiro (bio)
Cropping Systems, Soil and Crop Nutrient Management
Brandi Sigmon (bio)
Plant Evolution and Development, Comparative Genomics
Meghan Sindelar (bio)
Soil Science and Agronomy
Edward Souza
Global Wheat Breeding
Mitchell Stephenson (bio)
Range and Forage
Anne Streich (bio)
Turfgrass & Landscape Management
Dirac Twidwell (bio)
Rangeland Ecology and Management Fire Ecology
Carlos Urrea Florez (bio)
Breeding of Dry Bean Varieties That are Resistant to Rust, White Mold, Common Bacteria Blight, and Root Rots
Jerry Volesky (bio)
Grazing, Sandhills Rangeland
Richard Waldren (bio)
Plant Science Teaching
Harkamal Walia (bio)
Crop Responses to Drought, Heat, and Salt Stress
Steven Waller (bio)
Range Management and Improvement
Sam Wortman (bio)
Agronomy/Horticulture, Interactions between plants and the environment, Local, Urban, and Organic Fruit and Vegetable Production, Novel Management Tactics for Improved Sustainability of Specialty Crop Farms
Charles Wortmann (bio)
No-Till Systems, Nitrogen and Phosphorus Management, Biosolids Management
Haishun Yang (bio)
Crop Modeler
Melinda Yerka
Plant Genetics
UNL Graduate Chairs and staff please complete the program update form to provide edits. Updates to graduate program pages are made on an annual basis in conjunction with the Graduate Application for Admission.