Numbers in table body are total students (agronomy / horticulture only);
44 universities have been summarized below; out of 73 land grant universities
total. Responses were received from 61 departments offering plant breeding
degrees representing 47 land grant universities in 47 states and territories.
Four land grant universities did not respond the survey, resulting in
a 92% return rate.
*Indicates the 7 land grant universities training an average
of 6 or more plant breeding students per year in 1995-2000.
- Indicates not responding to survey, but probably zero.
| Land Grant
University |
Total |
U.S.
Ph.D. |
U.S.
M.S. |
Internat.
Ph.D. |
Internat.
M.S. |
| Trained
- Total over years (1995 - 2000) |
| Total
(all universities) |
783 |
157 |
214 |
260 |
152 |
| Alabama A&M
University |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Auburn University |
15 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
6 |
| Clemson University |
3 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Colorado
State University |
5 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
| *Cornell
University |
54 |
18 |
5 |
27 |
4 |
| *Iowa State
University |
44 |
13 |
13 |
12 |
6 |
| Kansas State
University |
20 |
6 |
7 |
2 |
5 |
| Louisiana
State University |
8 |
0 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
| Michigan
State University |
36 |
10 |
12 |
8 |
6 |
| Mississippi
State University |
20 |
6 |
4 |
6 |
4 |
| Montana State University |
13 |
4 |
7 |
2 |
0 |
| New Mexico
State University |
25 |
4 |
6 |
10 |
5 |
| *North Carolina
State University |
64 |
7 |
21 |
26 |
10 |
| North Dakota State
University |
33 |
3 |
13 |
11 |
6 |
| Ohio State
University |
6 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| Oklahoma
State University |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Oregon State
University |
28 |
4 |
5 |
16 |
3 |
| Pennsylvania
State University |
5 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| Purdue
University |
14 |
2 |
3 |
6 |
3 |
| Rutgers
University |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| South Dakota
State University |
23 |
0 |
13 |
5 |
5 |
| *Texas A&M University |
41 |
9 |
10 |
18 |
4 |
| Tuskegee
University |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| University
of Alaska-Fairbanks |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| University
of Arkansas |
7 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
| University
of California-Davis |
4 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
| University
of California-Riverside |
4 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
| University
of Connecticut |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
| University
of Delaware |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| University
of Florida |
15 |
6 |
1 |
4 |
4 |
| University of Georgia |
3 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| University
of Guam |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| University
of Hawaii |
8 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
| University
of Idaho |
15 |
3 |
7 |
3 |
2 |
| University
of Illinois-Urbana |
14 |
5 |
6 |
2 |
1 |
| University
of Kentucky |
3 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| University
of Maine |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| University
of Maryland |
6 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
| *University
of Minnesota |
48 |
16 |
11 |
13 |
8 |
| University
of Missouri |
13 |
0 |
5 |
8 |
0 |
| *University
of Nebraska-Lincoln |
61 |
5 |
10 |
27 |
19 |
| University
of New Hampshire |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| University
of Puerto Rico |
17 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
13 |
| University
of Rhode Island |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| University of Tennessee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| University
of Vermont |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| *University
of Wisconsin-Madison |
72 |
22 |
18 |
16 |
16 |
| University
of Wyoming |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Virginia
Polytechnic Institute & State University |
11 |
1 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
| West Virginia
University |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
