The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, including its School of Natural Resources, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has the resources to train its students for a wide variety of occupations or careers. Students enrolled in the College come from rural farm, rural non-farm, and urban backgrounds and possess wide academic and occupational interests. Others continue their professional training for lifetime careers as scientists. Still others go into business or industry, technical services, teaching, communications, conservation and recreation, nutritional fields, or public service related agricultural and life sciences and the natural resources.
Some students become owners or operators of production-commercial farms.
Most courses required for possible admission to the Landscape Architecture Degree Program are only available on the UW-Madison campus. Good basic preparation for agricultural science is available through UW-Green Bay's courses in the physical and life sciences, the social sciences and humanities. Below is a description for each of the 9 Degree Programs available at UW-Madison and a list of Majors offered in each. It is very important to meet with an adviser from UW-Madison early in the freshman year for proper course selection in these programs. The natural science degree program establishes a solid base of science course work to prepare students for graduate work and research, college teaching in natural sciences, or pre-professional study in medicine, veterinary medicine or related fields.