Education

Professional

Seed Biotechnology Center Courses

The Seed Biotechnology Center (SBC) at UC Davis offers professional education courses for industry members and growers around the world. The mission of the SBC is to mobilize the research, educational and outreach resources of UC Davis in partnership with the seed and biotechnology industries to facilitate discovery and commercialization of new seed technologies for agricultural and consumer benefit. The technical nature of plant breeding and seed production requires a highly educated workforce. A key goal of the SBC has been to provide ongoing education for professionals in the seed industry. A full list of courses can be found here.

Plant Breeding Academy

The University of California, Davis PLANT BREEDING ACADEMY is a premium professional development program designed to develop and enhance the skills of industry personnel around the world to enable them to become independent plant breeders or to contribute to larger breeding programs.

Graduate

Career Resources

We have compiled a list of career resources available on campus for graduate students, including GradPathways, understanding the differences between private and public sector careers in plant breeding, the Annual Master's and Ph.D. Career Symposium, and the Graduate Student Association. For more information, click here.

Graduate Academic Certificate in Plant Breeding

GACs are open to current students enrolled in a graduate degree program. A GAC is a structured sequence of courses and requirements that focus on a specialty or area of expertise not offered by a regular graduate degree program. GACs are administered by a UC Davis instructional unit (professional school, department, graduate group or a designated emphasis program), and are an additional sequence of training and expertise for graduate students. For more information, click here.