Agriculture Program at

Admission and Degree Information

General Admission Information

All students apply for admission through Eastern Oregon University's Admission Office , and pay EOU tuition.  One of the five degree majors should be selected. A high school or community college program with emphasis on sciences, mathematics and communications is recommended. Community college students planning on transferring should contact an OSU Agricultural Program faculty member for advising on appropriate classes. 

OSU Ag Program Admission

Students are advised within the OSU Agriculture Program as soon as they are admitted to EOU, allowing advisors to help students meet the OSU degree requirements. Students apply for admission with OSU when they acquire 90 credit hours and a 2.25 GPA.

Graduation Requirements

Degree requirements for the OSU Agriculture Program are the same as students on OSU's Corvallis campus. OSU Baccalaureate Core requirements are met (not EOU's) and individual degree requirements are met. Graduation applications are filed with OSU through the La Grande office. Students may participate in either the OSU or EOU commencement ceremony.

Bachelor of Science degrees are offered in: 

Agricultural Business Management
The ABM degree prepares students for the unique challenges and opportunities in agricultural business careers. Economic and business principles are combined and applied to farms and ranches, companies processing and marketing farm products, and companies supplying goods and services to farmers and other businesses. The curriculum combines skills in marketing, business management, accounting, and economic analysis with a technical minor from one of eight fields offered within the College of Agricultural Sciences. Two technical minors are available to ABM majors at Eastern Oregon University.

Environmental Economics, Policy and Management
The EEPM degree prepares students for a variety of natural resource and environmental management and decision-making careers, as well as for post-graduate programs. EEPM graduates are positioned to successfully tackle some of the most important issues facing our world today. Students receive a solid foundation in economic theory and quantitative methods, such as benefit-cost analysis, along with developing an understanding of the basic principles of related fields (ecology, hydrology, and natural resource systems). EEPM students apply their skills to issues of: public and private land use, soil and water conservation, air and water pollution control policy, endangered species management, and many other resource related issues.

Crop and Soil Science
Crop and Soil Science majors study the use and protection of plants and soils to provide the world's food, livestock feed, industrial raw materials, and seed for lawns, turf, watershed protection, and wildlife habitat. Courses integrate the scientific principles of soils, physics, chemistry, botany, and genetics as they deal with crop and natural resource management.

Undergraduate curricula are flexible enough to provide for the student's individual professional needs and interests and for a broad-based general education by allowing electives in other subject areas throughout the college. Positions are available in agricultural experiment stations and extension services, state departments of agriculture, food-processing companies, insurance agencies, and commercial firms dealing in the processing and sale of farm products, chemicals, and seed.

Natural Resources
There is a need for graduates who understand the broad range of natural resource problems, are able to work with issues and experts in a variety of resource fields, and who can deal with social and political components of resource management. To address this need, the Oregon State University Colleges of Agriculture, Forestry, Liberal Arts, and Science have developed an undergraduate major in natural resources. OSU Agriculture Program and Eastern Oregon University are excited to offer this new degree in La Grande.

Rangeland Ecology & Management
Rangeland Resources is one of the family of natural resource professions important to the social, economic and political development of Oregon and the nation.  It is concerned with the improvement, conservation, ecology, and use of the nation's rangeland.  Since range management is practiced on lands producing domestic and wild animals, timber, water, and recreation, concepts of integrated land use are included in the curriculum.  A good balance among crops, soils, domestic animals, wildlife, and other biological sciences is realized.  Range Science, range management, and business options are available at Eastern.

Minors are offered in: 

Agricultural Business Management, Resource Economics, Natural Resource Environmental Law & Policy, Animal Science, Crop Science, Rangeland Ecology & Management and Fish & Wildlife.

See Program Check Sheets for specfic course requirements.

All degrees are granted by Oregon State University.

For more information please contact our office:
OSU Ag Program at EOU
205 Badgley Hall, One University Blvd
La Grande, OR 97850
541-962-3612 or email: jolyn.scott@eou.edu