agricultural colleges
Rural education institutions
Agricultural colleges are institutions of higher education focused on farming, crop science, animal husbandry, and related fields.
In the United States, many were established as land-grant colleges in the 1860s, receiving federal land to fund practical education.
Today they often exist as schools within larger universities: She studied soil science at the state agricultural college.
- land grantGovernment-given real estate
- crop rotationAlternating field plantings yearly
- growing seasonTime crops can mature
- soil scienceStudy of earth's surface layer
- horticultureCultivating plants systematically
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Institutions teaching commerce and management
law schools · medical schools · engineering schools · art academies · conservatories
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