Range Science - New Mexico State University - Main Campus

Range Science from New Mexico State University - Main Campus is a Campus Master Farming degree that prepares you for a Agriculture career. The Graduate School at NMSU offers 42 areas of study at the master\\\'s level and 19 at the doctoral level. With rapidly expanding facilities, laboratories, and library holdings, the Graduate School offers unique programs of high quality graduate study. The Department of Animal and Range Sciences offers graduate work in range science leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees . Specific areas of study include range ecology, animal and plant nutrition, plant taxonomy, range improvements, disturbed land reclamation, range animal behavior, range animal interactions, range physiology, grazing management , brush and weed control, ecophysiology, and watershed management. Departmental enrollment of graduate students usually numbers about 70 individuals. The Animal and Range Sciences Department occupies the second and third floors of Knox Hall, a building completed in August, 1981. Approximately 12,300 square feet of floor space is devoted to faculty, technician, graduate student, and secretarial office space. The laboratory space of 14,500 square feet is planned by discipline, including nutrition, range ecology, brush and weed control, range physiology, herbarium, and watershed. Instrumentation available for graduate student use includes a glass house, growth chambers, an atomic absorption spectrophotometer, gas chromotograph, high performance liquid chromotograph, uv/visible spectrophotometer, liquid scintillation counter, and gamma counter. A small animal research building is also available for nutrition/physiology/toxicology with mice, rats, and other small laboratory animals. On campus animal units include a farm (50 beef cows and 400 sheep) with irrigated pastures (approximately 80 acres). Off-campus research locations include the 64,000 Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center located 20 miles north of Las Cruces, the 26,381 acre Fort Stanton Experimental Ranch located in Lincoln County, and the 190,000 acre Jornada Experimental Range . Other research is conducted throughout the state on public lands in conjunction with the Bureau of Land Management , U.S. Forest Service, Soil Conservation Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs. Other Opportunities for Graduate Students Advanced degrees are most often research oriented. Students are encouraged to become involved in a variety of research efforts in addition to their own thesis work. Research, however, is of little benefit if it is not reported to the agricultural and scientific communities. Presenting results of experiments at scientific meetings and in scientific journals is, therefore, considered to be an integral part of the graduate experience. This process affords students the opportunity to share ideas and to become acquainted with other research programs. Teaching opportunities allow the student to handle a classroom setting. View more details on New Mexico State University - Main Campus . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Farming courses.