Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary
Agricultural sciences teachers at postsecondary schools get to pass on their passion and mentor students as they learn all about crops, soils, production and weather.
If you love agricultural science, the study of soils, crops and animals, but don’t love the idea of working on site at an agricultural operation, you may want to look into becoming an agricultural sciences teacher at a postsecondary school.
You would teach students at a college or university all about agricultural production and processes, consumer products, crops, climate, soils, weather and more.
If you are creative, compassionate, generous, organized and optimistic, you would probably be successful in this field. Teachers at postsecondary schools help create curriculum, make lesson plans, teach and mentor students, conduct research and stay up to date in their area of expertise.
Agricultural sciences teachers enjoy passing on their love of agricultural sciences to students, working with the community, the academic environment, making a difference in students’ lives and the variety of job responsibilities.
To teach at a college or university, you will need your master’s degree and possibly a doctoral degree. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics expects the number of postsecondary teaching jobs to increase. It also reports that the average annual wage for postsecondary agricultural sciences teachers is about $77,000 but some teachers make as much as $124,000.