For generations, Auburn has been home to some of the world's leading agricultural scientists and innovators. From here, they have resolved many of the industry's toughest challenges while introducing its greatest advancements and training its greatest leaders. Today, our college offers more than a dozen undergraduate and graduate programs in 27 fields of study across eight academic departments. In addition, our college works hand in hand with the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System to produce innovative research while equipping farmers, businesses and communities with the latest knowledge in agricultural science and technology.
Student tends to plants inside the Vertical Farms"
1,074
Undergraduates in 2025
419
Graduate students in 2025
338
Degrees awarded in 2024-25
- Established in 1872 as one of the founding colleges of the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College, now Auburn University.
- Offers 13 undergraduate majors, 11 undergraduate minors and 23 graduate programs.
- Features seven academic departments and one school.
- Offers Auburn University’s top pre-veterinary tracks through the Department of Animal Sciences.
- Offers more than 20 student organizations to enhance student leadership skills, provide opportunities to network with alumni and faculty, and develop professional skills.
- Posts nearly a 100% job-placement rate through several high-demand majors, such as food science, horticulture and poultry science.
- Offers online Master of Science and Master of Agriculture degrees in crop, soil and environmental sciences.
- Secured a record $64 million in grants and contracts in 2023, followed by a second-all-time-record $53.4 million in 2024.
- Completed the poultry industry’s first comprehensive research, teaching and outreach facility, the Miller Poultry Research and Education Center, in 2020.
- Home to one of the world’s leading fisheries and aquaculture programs, which has helped develop aquaculture industries in more than 100 countries and built a 1,400-acre research and teaching complex, the E.W. Shell Fisheries Center, dedicated to fresh and saltwater research.
- Partners with Auburn University Campus Dining to offer the campus community fresh foods through on-campus and near-campus hydroponic and aquaponic farms.
