The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is feeding a hungry planet, protecting the environment and enriching the lives, land and economy of North Carolina, the nation and the world. CAES offers a doctoral program and three master’s degree programs to educate the next generation of scholars, leaders, growers and researchers who will address future food and agricultural challenges across the globe.
CAES is the land-grant arm of North Carolina A&T, a comprehensive public university that has been located in Greensboro for more than 125 years. With 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students, CAES is the largest agricultural school among the country’s historically Black colleges and universities and is the nation’s top producer of Black undergraduates in the agricultural sciences.
The college has four academic departments: Agribusiness, Applied Economics and Agriscience Education; Animal Sciences; Family and Consumer Sciences; and Natural Resources and Environmental Design. CAES is home to Cooperative Extension at N.C. A&T, which provides research-based outreach and expertise to small and limited-resource farmers, ranchers, families and communities across North Carolina. The college’s agriculture and food science research enterprise includes on-campus laboratories in multiple disciplines; the 492-acre University Farm, an active farm with animal and horticultural production where discoveries from U.S. Department of Agriculture-sponsored research contribute to North Carolina’s $84 billion agriculture industry; and the Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis.
CAES is part of North Carolina A&T, the nation’s preeminent historically Black college and university. With an enrollment of nearly 13,500 students, this doctoral higher research university is the largest HBCU in the country and the nation’s leading HBCU STEM institution. U.S. News & World Report has ranked it as the best public HBCU in America as well as in the top 40 in social mobility and in the top 50 of the most innovative institutions among all U.S. universities. North Carolina A&T is home to the top-ranked public HBCU business school and is the No. 1 producer of Black engineers in the nation.
Spread out over nearly 200 acres, the North Carolina A&T campus is the embodiment of Aggie Pride. It is a blend of historical structures and state-of-the-art academic, research, dining, housing and recreation facilities. One of the university’s newest and largest buildings is a 150,000-square foot student center that opened in 2018 to provide Aggies with the dining, recreation, studying and gathering spaces they deserve. The university is a proud member of the Colonial Athletic Association and fields teams in 15 sports. The football team, which competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision, recently won four Black college football national championships in five years. Aggie athletes won two gold medals and a bronze in track in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Each fall, A&T puts on the Greatest Homecoming on Earth, an eight-day extravaganza that brings back many of its more than 70,000 alumni to campus to reconnect with old friends and classmates. Highlights include a football game, the homecoming parade, concerts for students and alumni, the citywide Aggie Fan Fest and class and club reunions. GHOE is the university’s — and Greensboro’s — largest and most energetic campus and community event of the season.
To learn more about CAES graduate programs, visit us at www.ncat.edu/admissions/graduate/, email us at grad@ncat.edu or call us at 336-285-2366. To apply, click here. We look forward to you joining the Aggie family!
The Natural Resources and Environmental Systems concentration within the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Design equips graduates with the skills and knowledge to devise creative solutions to current and future challenges in environmental sustainability and agricultural production. This program offers coursework in sustainable land management, soil and water conservation and quality, insect science and pest management, plant nutrient management, bioproducts and bioenergy, biotechnology, urban and local food systems and more.
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The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University offers a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to prepare students for successful careers as university faculty, researchers and entrepreneurs and to lead in both the public and private sectors of academia and agriculture. Our doctoral students learn about the complex global food system and how to adapt to multiple emerging challenges around food, energy and water so they can provide and sustain a safe and healthy supply of food, fiber and other products for the world’s growing population.
