When you study at Penn College, your instructors will do more than know your name. They'll get to know you. Experienced, passionate, and dedicated to your success, Penn College faculty are here to support your academic journey.
When it comes time to select your career path, it’s important to focus on something that you truly love.
Whether you focus on landscaping or plant production, our associate degree program will satisfy your passion for nature. Working at our Earth Science Center, you’ll learn how to design, install, and maintain landscapes or produce high-yield commercial crops.
Explore our programs
Landscape/Plant Production Technology (A.A.S.)
Working hands-on in our expansive arboretum and greenhouse spaces, you’ll cultivate a host of in-demand skills. Through electives you can focus on general landscape operations, landscape construction & arboriculture, or plant production & tools, and techniques of production for ornamental, edible, and medicinal crops.
Bachelor Degree Pathway
Rise to administrative and management positions in your field with an Applied Management (B.S.) Online degree
Minors & Immersions
Pair a minor with any bachelor's degree, or an immersion with any bachelor's or associate's degree.
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Think Penn College might be a good fit for you? Make plans to visit and discover what hands-on learning is all about.
Jun 24
Open House
Saturday, June 24 8:30 AM - 2 :30 PM
Jul 29
Open House
Saturday, July 29 8:30 - 2 :30 PM
Pre-College Programs
Define your future
There are lots of ways to explore your future across all types of majors from nursing to culinary.
Explore tomorrow
- Stay and learn on campus over your summer break
- Explore a variety of career options
- Experience our hands-on approach to education
- Earn up to $2,000 in Penn College scholarships
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News
04.28.2023
Tree plantings mark Arbor Day at ESC
Students in Carl J. Bower Jr.'s Emerging Trends in Horticulture class planted a serviceberry tree and a weeping willow in observance of Arbor Day on Friday, further beautifying the Schneebeli Earth Science Center campus and celebrating Penn College's renewed Tree Campus Higher Education designation.
04.26.2023
Forestry alum relives storied career’s genesis in ESC visit
A forest technology graduate, whose law enforcement career with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management culminated in being named "Special Agent of the Year" in 2019, returned to the Schneebeli Earth Science Center last week when back in the area to visit family.
04.21.2023
Look who's living in the 'Idea Garden!'
Students in Carl J. Bower Jr.'s Sustainable Horticulture class combined a variety of elements – not the least of which was whimsy – in crafting a new inhabitant of the Schneebeli Earth Science Center.