Nebraska's Comprehensive Ag Program
The agriculture industry is essential for the growth and prosperity of the world, including the people, plants and animals who live in it. Concordia University, Nebraska’s agriculture programs can equip you with the skills you need to be a good steward of God’s earth, to think critically and solve the problems facing the agriculture industry today.
The agriculture programs at Concordia Nebraska focus on four foundational disciplines within the agriculture field: agribusiness, animal science, food science and plant science, so you’re best-prepared to serve in ag after graduation, whether that’s in agricultural education, agricultural science or agribusiness, so you can help create sustainable, long-lasting and ethically sound agriculture practices for the future.
Ag-Focused Academic Programs
Agribusiness
With a concentration in agribusiness at Concordia University, you will learn the necessary skills to become an essential part of the food supply industry. As an agricultural producer on a farm or ranch or in a business that provides services and supplies to those operations, you will apply business principles to real-world issues and opportunities within the agricultural and life sciences industries.
Agricultural Science
Through Concordia’s ag degree, you will study a broad selection of agriculture courses that look at food production from start to finish so you are ready for a career in agriculture or natural resource-related sales, ag finance, or work in an extension office, government agency, land use organization or in production agriculture as a farmer or rancher.
Agricultural Education
A degree in agricultural education from Concordia University, Nebraska will prepare you with the teaching and leadership skills, technical agricultural knowledge and broad general education you need to be a successful middle, high school or community agricultural program agriculture teacher. The ag education program at Concordia can also provide you with the preparation you need to work in agricultural extension, positions in foreign service or as an agricultural educator in business and industry.
Thank you for your interest in the agricultural science program at Concordia Nebraska! Be on the lookout for additional information from us in the next couple of weeks.
Until then, here are some links to get you more familiar with our program and our university.
Agricultural Science Focus Areas
Concordia Nebraska Ag Industry Partners
Concordia is blessed with partners who are joining us to build together the future ag industry.
Nebraska Ag Summit
Concordia Catalyst Competition
The Concordia Catalyst Competition organized each year by the agriculture programs at Concordia University, Nebraska offers ag students the chance to present an idea for creating a potential business, testing their entrepreneurship skills and providing them meaningful feedback for business plans that could become actual businesses in the future.
