Study Food Systems in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
At UVM, it's in our nature to think differently and to challenge the usual. We are the first and only university in the country to offer undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in Food Systems.
As a leader in food systems nationally, Vermont offers students access to a living classroom, a working laboratory, and professors who think as broadly as the disciplines they straddle. But once you're here, you'll just call it home.
The B.S. program deeply educates students on all aspects of the food system:
- Agricultural systems
- Environmental, social, and economic sustainability of food production with a changing climate
- Food and health
- Food security
- Policy development at federal, state, and local levels
- Understanding the complex dynamics of a global food systems