<p>My neice is looking for a good ag school and wants to stay in California. I know about UC Davis and Cal Poly Pomona, but are there other notable options in state?</p>
<p>probably CSU Chico. some good friends went there in agriculture and loved the school and their education. What field of agriculture is she looking for? One school may be better in Ag Business, another in Ag Engineering, another in Ag Communications, and yet another in Ag Education. CSU Chico is a good Ag Ed school.</p>
<p>Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo has an agriculture school. Here is their site:
<a href="http://www.cagr.calpoly.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cagr.calpoly.edu/</a></p>
<p>UC Davis is the Harvard of agriculture schools!!!</p>
<p>lol cow town</p>
<p>WashU doesn't have an agriculture department, but if it did, I am sure I wouldn't reccommend your neice apply to it. WashU is a terrible school, as all CC posters constantly remind us, and you shouldn't ever consider applying there.</p>
<p>That being said, perhaps Sonoma State would offer some sort of programs? I don't know anything about it beyond it being a good state school, but the fact it is located near wine country must be worth something.</p>
<p>With the exception of UC-Davis, there are no "good" ag schools in California. Your niece is really limiting herself if she truly wishes to attend a good Ag school. There are so many awesome Ag schools aroud the nation...most of them located in pleasant locales, like: </p>
<p>Colorado State University
Cornell University (#1 Ag school in the US)
Iowa State University
Michigan State University
North Carolina State University
Pennsylvania State University-University Park
Purdue University-West Lafayette
Texas A&M University-College Station
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>Thanks so much, everybody.</p>
<p>I've been trying to get her to look out of state, but I think she's scared of being so far from home. Unlike my D, who's highly independent and was chomping at the bit for a radically different experience (she's at Macalester in MN now), my neice is nearly the polar opposite.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, I will encourage her to look outside her neighborhood. Maybe the U of M would be appealing with her cousin right down the street.</p>
<p>sonoma does not have an ag school. the best ag programs in the CSU are at san luis, then pomona, then fresno. all are excellent, particularly both cal polys.</p>
<p>Alot of the Ag schools are within a land-grant institution. I am a bit familiar with that concept as my d attends Cornell and they too have a College of Agriculture. It seems some of the Ca schools with Agriculture programs include California Polytech- Humboldt-UC Berkley/College of Natural Resources/ Davis and Riverside.
But you may want to check this site out, as it will link you directly to the Ag. programs throughout the USA--
<a href="http://www.csrees.usda.gov%5B/url%5D">www.csrees.usda.gov</a>
on right hand side- click on "more quick links"
then click on "state and national partners"
usa map comes up- just click on state that you are interested in and it will link you to the programs within each state.</p>
<p>correct. implicit within the land grant charter was to establish an ag outreach for local farmers along with other things like centers for military science.</p>